to Uché Blackstock
Uché Blackstock is an emergency physician and founder and chief executive of Advancing Health Equity. This essay is adapted from her new book, “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine.”
When I was a little girl, my twin sister, Oni, and I used to visit our mother at work. Her name was Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock and, in the 1980s and ’90s, she was an attending physician at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, not far from our home in Crown Heights.
