@uche_blackstock takes readers on a journey you don't want to miss! “This was 21 century NYC. No one hung signs over the doors of the Tisch & Bellevue saying COLOREDS & WHITES, but even so, these white patients sensed that somehow I must have walked in through the wrong door.”+
“I was a physician; you would think my insider knowledge would have given me a sense of security. [T]he opposite was true. Knowing everything I know abt healthcare & the way we are treated as Black people, ... It was just too dangerous for me to be anything apart from healthy.” +
@uche_blackstock at a crossroad, imagining what her late mother would say: “I didn’t raise you, put all this work into you, for you to feel unhappy and unsafe at work. You can do anything. Sky’s the limit.” +
The book ends with a powerful meditation on what the word LEGACY means for Blackstock. It reverberates, especially given the shameless attacks on affirmative action and any program designed to make American institutions less hostile for more people.