Race Isn't Everything in Medical Treatment [PSMag.com]

Do you look like your doctor?

For many of us, the answer is no, as Damon Tweedy explains in Black Man in a White Coat. Tweedy, a practicing psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine, is the eponymous black man, and he has learned through experience that appearances matter. He has also learned through experience that experience matters, sometimes regardless of appearances.

[For more of this story, written by Ross Ufberg, go to http://www.psmag.com/books-and...in-medical-treatment]