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Seeing Patients : A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface
Title
Seeing Patients : A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface / Augustus A. White III, MD.
ISBN
9780674244061
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (376 p.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
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
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