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Seeing Patients

A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface

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$25.00 • £21.95 • €22.95

ISBN 9780674241374

Publication Date: 11/19/2019

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360 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

19 illus.

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“A powerful and extraordinarily important book.”
—James P. Comer, MD

“A marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul.”
—Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think

Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. While race relations have changed dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at one of Harvard’s top teaching hospitals to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America.

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  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

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