Black Man in a White Coat Quotes

“Could it be that despite all the years I spent in medical school and residency training acquiring specialized knowledge and practical skills, that this expertise mattered little to my patients' overall health?”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“By the late 1980s, blacks accounted for half of all HIV cases in women; most recent”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“gimpy”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“You know at some point, we’ve got to stop blaming white folks for all of our problems,” Dr. Mason said. “We’re our own worst enemy.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“figuring little good could come from fanning racial flames.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“soft-spoken, understated style—she didn’t wear heels, makeup, or tight-fitting clothes.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“By the late 1980s, blacks accounted for half of all HIV cases in women; most recent estimates place that number at more than 60 percent.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“The stereotype of black intellectual inferiority was so ingrained that for a black person to do as well, or better, than whites and Asians, they had to be “exceptionally bright”—earnest admiration and condescension wrapped in the same package.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“Johns Hopkins graduated its first black medical students in 1967. The University of Chicago had just one black student in its Class of 1968. Harvard enrolled just two black students that same year.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“Of all the forms of inequality,” Martin Luther King Jr. told a gathering of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1966, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are much higher.”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“It’s a common practice in the mental health world to treat substance abuse as a distinct entity from other mental illnesses, such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, although drug use frequently overlaps with these disorders. “So what about”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine