Sunday, September 8, 2024
Take Care of Them Like My Own by Ala Stanford
TAKE CARE OF THEM LIKE MY OWN by Ala Stanford, pediatric surgeon and founder of the
Black Doctors Consortium, deserves a wide readership. It is a fascinating tale,
although there could be some triggering due to the discussions of child abuse.
Stanford embraces her life story (subtitled “Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's
Fight for Health Justice”) and relates it in great detail. Clearly, Stanford
confronted prejudice and discrimination throughout her pioneering and
remarkable career. She comments on biases in the medical system, including a
lack of “generational knowledge, kind of like generational wealth” and relates
numerous shocking (to me) instances such as when a supervisor torpedoes Stanford’s
chances at a future placement by outright lying about her. She is an
accomplished, inspirational fighter, and I hope that many readers locate TAKE CARE OF THEM LIKE MY OWN. It is
well-written and an engrossing read. Book Groups could consider promoting it
with the newly published Lovely
One by Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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