Summary of Damon Tweedy's Black Man in a White Coat

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#1 I was a first-year medical student at Duke. I had spent my first few weeks there expanding my insecurities about my classmates, but I had finally done well on my midterm exams. I was starting to feel comfortable.

#2 At Duke, I was often mistaken for a potential criminal, hired help when I was a paying customer, and most favorably, a budding professional basketball player. But it was one thing to be insulted by a stranger I’d never see again, and something altogether worse for my professor to cast me in such a limiting way.

#3 In a color-blind world, Duke might have rejected me. In fact, it offered me a full-tuition scholarship to its medical school. The fact that so many of my classmates came from prestigious colleges didn’t help.

#4 The professor then turned to racial numbers: We have fourteen underrepresented minorities out of our total of one hundred students. In academic circles, underrepresented minorities include blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans.

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Ebook: June 8, 2022