Seeing patients : a surgeon's story of race and medical bias, with a new preface / Augustus A. White III, MD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White III, MD, Augustus A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American surgeons--Biography.

African American surgeons.

Discrimination in medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Introduction: My Fellow Humans

1. It Takes a Village: Memphis

2. Scrub Nurse

3. Becoming a Doctor: Stanford

4. Becoming a Surgeon: Yale

5. Combat Surgeon: Death and Our Common Humanity

6. Getting toward Equal: Sweden

7. A Man Ain't Nothin' but a Man

8. Orthopedic Chief: Harvard

9. Diagnosis and Treatment: The Subconscious at Work

10. Health- Care Disparities: Race

11. Health- Care Disparities: Women, Hispanics, Elderly, Gay

12. Culturally Competent Care

Epilogue

Some Practical Suggestions for Patients and Physicians

National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

"With a new preface."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780674244054

0674244052

9780674244061

0674244060

OCLC:

1122919285