Seeing Patients : : A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface / / Augustus A. White III, MD.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: White III, MD, Augustus A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

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.

Table of 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