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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: Dr. Uché Blackstock Town Hall Seattle: White Dedication to Racism in Healthcare
Description: Dr. Uché Blackstock visits Town Hall Seattle to discuss her motivation to be a physician and the impact of the System of White Supremacy on the healthcare of black people. Author of the book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine. Gus T. read portions of this book when it was originally published and heavily advertised in 2024. He particularly remembers the portion of the text where Dr. Blackstock details the failures with pulse oximeters (failures
that specifically harm black patients), and emphasizes that Whites have been aware of these failures for decades, yet they do not correct the p...