Dr. Blackstock for sharing with us her incredible journey and book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.
Resources:
Pre-order Dr. Blackstock’s book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705871/legacy-by-uche-blackstock-md/
Dr. Blackstock’s op-ed in STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/
MSNBC - ‘Legacy’ Author reveals deep inequities, racism in healthcare: https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/-legacy-author-dr-uche-blackstock-reveals-deep-inequities-racism-in-healthcare-204016197935
Dr. Blackstock on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/22/1226047324/uche-blackstock-legacy-racism-medicine
Dr. Blackstock on how your neighborhood impacts your health: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/27/1247296777/taking-care-of-yourself-in-the-face-of-external-limitations
Politics and Prose - Featuring Dr. Blackstock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVfi_d2FU6A
CNN - Dr. Blackstock on racism and prejudice in U.S. healthcare: https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2024/01/24/the-lead-uche-blackstock-racism-in-healthcare-jake-tapper-live.cnn
The Flexner Report of 1910: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3543812/
Washington Post - Dr. Blackstock on the Flexner Report:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/22/uche-blackstock-legacy-black-doctors
AMA - How Should We Respond to Racist Legacies in Health Professions Education Originating in the Flexner Report?: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-should-we-respond-racist-legacies-health-professions-education-originating-flexner-report/2021-03
Dr. Blackstock follows in her mother’s footsteps to make medicine more inclusive: https://www.wusf.org/2024-01-22/following-in-her-moms-footsteps-a-doctor-fights-to-make-medicine-more-inclusive
Harvard Magazine - Dr. Blackstock is on a mission to root out racism in medicine: https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/uche-blackstock-mission-root-out-racism-medicine
AMA - Legacy of medical racism: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/how-legacy-medical-racism-shapes-us-health-care-today
NIH - Experience of medical racism among Black adults:https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/news-events/research-spotlights/experiences-of-medical-racism-among-black-adults.html
Health Affairs - Structural racism in historical and modern U.S. policy: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01466
Commonwealth Fund - Confronting racism in healthcare:https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2021/oct/confronting-racism-health-care
Medical News Today - Racism in healthcare, statistics and examples:
Nature - Racism in health - the harms of biased medicine:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03325-z
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