Physician, educator and author Uché Blackstock shares her New York Times Bestselling book Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine. The book is both a memoir and an indictment of disparities in our healthcare system. We hear what legacy means to Uché, and how racism shows up in medicine for Black doctors. We also talk about her most beloved books, and the Pet to Threat phenomenon.

The Stacks Book Club selection for February is Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin. We will discuss the book on February 28th with Uché Blackstock.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Legacy by Uché Blackstock, M.D.
• Advancing Health Equity
• Flexner Report
• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington
• The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president [Claudine Gay]. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage” (Collin Binkley and Moriah Balingit, AP News)
• “The Infuriating Journey From Pet To Threat: How Bias Undermines Black Women At Work” (Kevin Donahue, Tina Gilbert, Melinda Halpert, and Portia Robertson Migas, Forbes)
• Dr. Kecia Thomas
• New York University Grossman School of Medicine
• Harvard University
• “How Serena Williams Saved Her Own Life” (Serena Williams, Elle)
• “Beyoncé Opens Up About Her Difficult Pregnancy and Emergency C-Section” (Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut)
• “Infant Was Decapitated During Delivery, Georgia Couple’s Lawsuit Claims” (Lauren McCarthy, The New York Times)
• The People’s Hospital by Ricardo Nuila
• Pulse Oximetry
• Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey
• Dr. Jen Caudle
• Joel Bervell
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang, 1993)
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• “Ep. 90 Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson — The Stacks Book Club (Jason Reynolds)” (The Stacks)
• There There by Tommy Orange
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “A New Way to Read Gatsby” (Alonzo Vereen, The Atlantic)
• All About Love by bell hooks
• The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
• On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi
• Atul Gawande
• Outlive by Peter Attia
• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Break the Cycle by Mariel Buqué
• Stop Waiting for Perfect by L’Oreal Thompson Payton
• “Ep. 287 Ending Racism with Minda Honey” (The Stacks)
• The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
• Legacy by Uché Blackstock, MD
• The New York Times Book Review
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Atlantic
• ACOG medical journal ‘Obstetrics & Gynecology’
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird
• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
• Race on Campus by Julie J. Park
• Cafe Con Libros (Brooklyn, NY)
• Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
• Get Off My Neck by Debbie Hines
• “Ep. 302 We Shouldn’t Be Asking You This Question with Carolina Ixta” (The Stacks)
• Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
• Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Henrietta Lacks
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (George C. Wolfe, 2017)
• A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A Washington
• Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens
• Infectious Madness by Harriet A. Washington
• Imani Perry
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin
• Imagination by Ruha Benjamin

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