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.
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