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Black man in a white coat a doctors reflections on race and medicine book. When damon tweedy started medical school in 1997, he learned the painful truth about medicine and race. More common in blacks than in whites black man in a white coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. Black man in a white coat is damon tweedys memoir of his experience as a black man getting into medical school up through becoming a practicing physician. Black man in a white coat black man in a white coat audiobook, by damon tweedy. A doctors reflections on race and medicine is tweedys thoughtful answer to that gap.

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