Uché Blackstock, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Zibby welcomes doctor and New York Times bestselling author Uché Blackstock to discuss LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and an urgent call to action. Uché shares stories of her upbringing, her mother’s influence, and her experiences as a Black woman navigating the medical field. She and Zibby delve into the topics of culturally responsive care, racial health disparities, and the impact of historical decisions on the representation of Black physicians. Uché’s advocacy shines through as she offers actionable steps for improving healthcare equity and reflects on her journey in writing this book.

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0:33.6	Ute Blackstock is the author of Legacy, a black physician reckons with racism and medicine.
0:39.2	Dr. Ute Blackstock is a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in health care.
0:43.8	She appears on air regularly as an MSNBC medical contributor and is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity,
0:50.3	as well as a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Legacies from Harvard Medical School.
0:56.4	Dr. Blackstock currently lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with her two small children.
1:00.9	Welcome, Uche.
1:01.7	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Surm Time to read books to discuss Legacy,
1:05.7	a black physician reckons with racism in medicine.
1:09.3	Thank you so much for having me on, to be. I really loved your story and your personal story and you're really like this love letter to your mom and the legacy that she left and your relationship with her and how she sort of informed the lives of you and your sister.
1:24.6	And I don't know, it was such a a it was such a wonderful sort of even framing
1:28.8	device of a book to have your mom there so maybe just tell listeners a little bit about the story
1:35.0	and her and I want to talk about your own health issue that you write about and just so much more right
1:39.8	yeah yeah there's so much to talk about but yeah no actually like when thought about writing the book, it really was an opportunity to get my mom.
1:47.7	Well, she always had a voice, but to share that voice with others, like people who didn't know her or didn't have the fortune to interact with her.
1:56.6	And, you know, she just had such a different upbringing than I did.
1:59.8	She had a really challenging upbringing, single mom, born just had such a different upbringing than I did. She had a really challenging
2:01.0	upbringing. Single mom, born on public assistance, and, you know, they moved a lot, changed
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