Dr. Ala Stanford discusses her new memoir, 'Take Care of Them Like My Own.'
Dr. Ala Stanford sat down with ABC News to discuss her mission to combat the health disparities affecting Black communities in her new book, "Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice."
Her mission: to combat the health disparities affecting Black communities. In her new book, "Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice," Dr. Stanford chronicles her pandemic experience and highlights her ongoing commitment to addressing inequities that disproportionately impact marginalized communities.DR. ALA STANFORD: Thank you for having me here. I'm excited.
ABC NEWS: One thing that really I found, there were so many things that I found fascinating. But Swamp Poodle, Pennsylvania, you say you have the actual average for the life expectancy is the lowest of anywhere else in this country. And so I want to just draw a straight line between race and economics and how that applies with health care.
STANFORD: So we know that one Black person doctor in a community improves health outcomes because it's the cultural sensitivity, the lived experience that educates your colleagues. And so when Black Americans represent 4.7% of doctors, but 14% of the population, the representation does not exist. When I graduated from medical school two decades ago, the percentage of Black doctors was 5%; 20 years later, it's 5%.
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