Dr Uche Blackstock always knew she wanted to be a doctor following in the footsteps of her mother.

Not only was she amazing, but I wish she could have given herself a little bit of grace I wish the

road could have been easier for her. It's Monday February 12th and welcome back

from the weekend it's still Science Friday. I'm Sci-Fi producer Shishana Bucksbaum.

Uche and her twin sister Oni would often visit their mother at work, seeing her in action taking care of patients, and they love to play with their mother's doctors bag.

And later, Uche and O'Nae became the first black mother-daughter legacies to graduate from Harvard Medical School. In her new book, Dr. Blackstock

reflects on this legacy and grapples with the long history of racism in American medicine.

Here's Sci-Fi producer Kathleen Davis with that conversation.

Dr. Uchee Blackstock is an emergency physician, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and author of Legacy, a Black physician reckons with racism in medicine. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Blackstock, welcome back to Science Friday.

Kathleen, thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to you back.

Thank you so much for being here.

You write so lovingly about your mother.

Tell me more about what you learned about medicine from her. about your

original doctor black stock. I had a very unusual childhood in that my mother was a

black woman and that she was a physician.

But she also really left a huge impact on both my twin sister and me.

She grew up here in Central Brooklyn where I live but under very different circumstances.

She's bored to a single mom. My mom also had about I have other siblings and

was raised on public assistance.

So she had a really, really difficult life,

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