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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822533851

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Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#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.

#5

Medical schools are trying to recruit the best black students, but the numbers are still low overall. Blacks make up about 13 percent of the general U. S. population, but only about 7 percent of doctors.

#6

While the days of cross burnings and swastikas are a distant memory at Duke, the school still grapples with its legacy of racial discrimination. Many black students view Duke through a racially tinged lens.

#7

At Duke, I was given a full-tuition scholarship, which was awarded to me because of my race. This was seen by some as affirmative action doing its job, giving a working-class black kid the chance for an elite education, or as affirmative action ruining a slot for someone else more deserving.

#8

I learned that minority students at my