Name: Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice (en Inglés)
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Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ala Stanford

Editorial

Simon and Schuster

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm

Peso

0.51 kg.

ISBN13

9781668004067

Categorías

Memorias
Discriminación social y desigualdad
Salud pública y medicina preventiva

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice (en Inglés)

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The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of racism, sexism, and poverty threatened to derail her at every turn. Nevertheless, thanks to her faith, family, and the sheer strength of her will, today she is one of the vanishingly small number of Black women surgeons in America--and an unrelenting force in the fight for health justice. In Take Care of Them Like My Own, Dr. Stanford shares an unflinching account of her story, explaining how her experiences on both sides of the scalpel have informed her understanding of America's racial health gap, an insidious and lethal form of inequality that exacts a devastating toll on Black communities across the country, affluent and underserved alike. When Covid-19 arrived in her hometown of Philadelphia, she knew it would disproportionately affect the Black population. As the city stood idly by, unwilling or unable to protect its most vulnerable citizens, Dr. Stanford took matters into her own hands. She rented a van, made some calls, and began administering tests in church parking lots. Soon, she found herself at the helm of a powerful grassroots campaign that successfully vaccinated tens of thousands of Philadelphians. She and her movement are living proof that by drawing on faith, community, and inner strength, everyday people can affect tremendous change. Part memoir, part manifesto for health equality and justice, Take Care of Them Like My Own offers urgent lessons about the power of communities working together to take care of one another and the importance of fighting for a healthcare system that truly fulfills its promise to all Americans.