Ultimately, cooler heads prevailed. Black Man in a White Coat As Tweedy continued his education and training, he discovered a passion for treating the mind over the body. "The emotional side is ...

Dr. Damon Tweedy talked about his book Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine. In his book, Dr. Tweedy talks about the challenges confronting black doctors ...

From the mid-1940s until 1972, as part of the infamous Tuskeegee study, the US Public Health Service deliberately withheld penicillin from hundreds of black men with syphilis so researchers could ...

Dr. Damon Tweedy dispels this notion in his new book, “Black Man in a White Coat,” with an account of an awkward midterm encounter with one of his medical school professors. Dr. Gale spots him ...

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy Picador, 2015 (($26)) As a black doctor, author Tweedy has firsthand knowledge of how, for complicated ...