Dr. Uché Blackstock
M.D., founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity
Uché Blackstock, M.D., is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, best-selling author of “LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” and a former MSNBC and NBC News medical contributor.
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Dr. Uché Blackstock
Dallas Regional Medical Center said in a statement that it is “committed to providing compassionate, high-quality care to every person who comes through our doors.”
As an emergency physician, I have cared for marginalized patients who came into public hospitals after delaying care because they had nowhere else to turn.
The higher rates of infection and death weren’t the result of anything Black people had done to make ourselves sick; they were an example of how systemic racism plays out in our lives.
