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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
Written by Dr. Brian H. Williams
Narrated by Dr. Brian H. Williams
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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From the perspective of a Black surgeon working on the front lines of trauma care, this tour de force diagnoses the structural root of the violence plaguing our nation.
Author
Dr. Brian H. Williams
Dr. Brian H. Williams is an Air Force Academy graduate, a Harvard-trained surgeon, a former congressional health-policy advisor, and a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of public policy and structural racism, gun violence, and health equity. He has treated gun-violence victims for more than two decades and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine and a professor at the University of Chicago Medicine.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Riveting! My husband and I put Netflix aside and listened to The Bodies Keep Coming together. We both enjoyed it and looked forward to ending to keep listening. We both highly recommend The Bodies Keep Coming!