When Damon Tweedy entered medical school, he assumed he was pursuing a career in which race was rarely a factor. This hour, we’ll talk with him about how he learned that ethnicity and medicine actually frequently intersect, which he writes about in his memoir “Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicines” (Picador).
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