Lately, you haven’t been feeling like yourself.
You’ve always been a bounce-out-of-bed kind of person, but not anymore: you’re achy now, tired, and you can’t think straight. Did you pick up a bug of some kind or—as you’ll learn in the new book “Black Man in a White Coat” by Damon Tweedy, M.D.—does the color of your skin have something to do with it?
Damon Tweedy knew he was a rarity.
In 1996, the year he entered medical school at Duke University, just seven percent of all medical students in the U.S. were Black. That minority-within-a-minority, he says, led to unintended racism in the classroom.