I Can't Save You

 by Anthony Chin Quee

This book is a brutally honest chaos narrative.  At times, hard to read there are flashes of brilliance.

Here is the Amazon blurb:
"At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist—an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated.

 
As a self-described “not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,” Chin-Quee knows that he doesn’t fit easily into any category. Growing up in a family with a background of depression, he struggled with relationships, feelings of inadequacy, and a fear of failure that made it difficult for him to forge lasting bonds with others.
 
To repair that, he began his own unflinching examination of what it means to be both a physician and a Black man today. What saved him and his sanity was not medicine but storytelling: by sharing stories from his life and career, Chin-Quee learned how powerful the truth can be in helping to forgive yourself and others as you chart a new way forward.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, honest and human, I Can’t Save You is the fascinating true story of how looking within can change you and your life for the better."

Twice As Hard

Jasmine Brown, a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published Twice As Hard, a history of black women physicians in the United States. Before med school, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Her book considers at the social and structural barriers blacks had to overcome to pursue a career in medicine. This was and is especially difficult for black women.

Twice As Hard looks of the careers of nine early black women physicians as the author compares their trials with her own struggles. They, and other black women physicians, helped her to understand what she was up against even today to achieve her dream.

Ms. Brown’s interview on February 15, 2023 by the Bellevue Literary Review can be accessed on You Tube.