The bodies keep coming: dispatches from a Black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
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As a Harvard-trained physician, Williams learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow the rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, Williams tried to save the lives of police officers shot in Dallas in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories about heroism more than hard truths about racism, Williams came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw and intimate detail, Williams narrates not only the events of that night in 2016, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, and he trains his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills that manifest themselves in the bodies of his patients. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it was designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until something changes. Until we transform policy and law with compassion and care, the bodies will keep coming.
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African Americans
African American surgeons
African American surgeons -- Biography
Autobiographies
Biographies
Civil rights
Discrimination in medical care
Discrimination in medical care -- United States
Gunshot wounds
Gunshot wounds -- Surgery
History
Political science
Race relations
Racism
Racism -- United States
Social sciences
Surgeons
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography
Surgery
Williams, Brian H
Williams, Brian H. -- (Surgeon)
African American surgeons
African American surgeons -- Biography
Autobiographies
Biographies
Civil rights
Discrimination in medical care
Discrimination in medical care -- United States
Gunshot wounds
Gunshot wounds -- Surgery
History
Political science
Race relations
Racism
Racism -- United States
Social sciences
Surgeons
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography
Surgery
Williams, Brian H
Williams, Brian H. -- (Surgeon)
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The bodies keep coming : dispatches from a Black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal / Brian H. Williams
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