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In the sixties, Fitzhugh Mullan was an activist in the civil rights struggle. While in medical school, Mullan was shocked by gaps in what the students learned, and the lack of humanity in the classroom. Later, Dr. Mullan was outraged at the conditions he discovered when he began to practice. He helped found the Student Health Organization, organized the Controversial Medical Collective at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, and struggled to offer improved medical care to those who needed it most and could afford it least.
This landmark book charts the state of medical school and practices in the 1960s and 70s. This new edition is updated with a preface in which Dr. Mullan reflects on the changes in the medical field over the last thirty-plus years.
Fitzhugh Mullan is Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at George Washington University. He worked at the U.S. Public Health Service where he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (1991-1996). Dr. Mullan is the co-founder of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and the author of numerous books, including Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service, and his most recent book, Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy.
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Patricia Lesniak
reviewed White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician on January 27, 2008
White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician
James Tracy handed this book to me after a fun night of drinking beer at a bar near his house after I expressed my desire to learn about the radical doctors that came before me. He couldn't have handed me a better book.
This book is the account of a radical doctor who received their medical education in the midst of the Freedom Rides and rise of the Black Panthers and Young Lords. Mullen provides a great analysis and critique of medical school education and the medical establishment in NYC during the late 1960s and 1970s. He also provides an account of the kinds of organizing efforts he was a part of during school and during his residency in the Bronx.
The best thing this book offers is an account and analysis of what radical doctors during this period of time tried to do to make change, from their best (like siding with the Young Lords during their takeover of Lincoln Hospital) to their worst (like continuing the medical hierarchy and disrespecting nurses and taking them for granted). This is an important book for radicals going into establishment medicine--we are carrying on a legacy that we have so much to learn from!
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