If you're going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform-the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment. Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White ...
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If you're going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform-the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment. Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. And while race relations have changed dramatically, old ways of thinking die hard. In Seeing Patients White draws upon his experience in startlingly different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for health care in a diverse twenty-first-century America. White and coauthor David Chanoff use extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment. Their book brings together insights from the worlds of social psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to define the issues clearly and, most importantly, to outline a concrete approach to fixing this fundamental inequity in the delivery of health care.
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I first learned of Dr Augustus White while watching him interviewed by Tavis Smiley (PBS). I immediately purchased a copy of Dr. White's book. As a patient seeking a diagnosis of a complex medical problem, I was on the receiving end of serious bias and wanted to find the best way to understand it. Dr. White is honest and forthcoming in this book. He took a huge chance, rolled the dice, and stood before his peers, asking them to consider their personal biases. The chapter sharing this experience is compelling. This book should be read by every individual on both sides of the healthcare system... medical professionals as well as patients. It's written in plain English and stays on point. I felt Dr. White's own realization of personal bias was incredibly frank and sincere, and put to good use by writing, "Seeing Patients: " I recommend this book highly. Those on both sides of this problem should read it now. If a reader has been on the receiving end of bias, try to set aside any anger you may be experiencing and read what this doctor has to say. If a reader is a medical professional and finds him or her "self" with biases, please consider what Dr. White has revealed as a solution. I'm an author and read extensively, classics to contemporary literature in all genres. This is one of the top ten books on my personal list of reading material. I tell all of my friends to give it a "look see." You will not be disappointed!
