Nationwide — Otto E. Stallworth, Jr. is a retired medical physician. His specialty was anesthesiology and he had practiced for over forty-five years and penned his memoir over the last 4 years. After a minor dispute together with his literary agent, Stallworth took the freedom to self-publish his manuscript. The ebook is entitled Are You A N****r Or A Physician? A Memoir.
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Born in 1945, Stallworth earned his medical diploma on the age of 24, and in 1970, he turned licensed within the states of Georgia, California, and Nevada. At age 29, he turned Chief of Anesthesiology at Hawthorne Neighborhood Hospital, which later turned the Robert F. Kennedy Medical Middle in Hawthorne, California.
Within the second month of his internship at an Ohio hospital, an 80-year-old white affected person, who was a retired police chief of a small city, affected by dementia, regarded up at Dr. Stallworth in his confusion and requested, “Are you a nigger or a health care provider?” That very telling encounter was actually indicative of the instances. How Dr. Stallworth responded to that query speaks to the center of his story, making it a becoming title for his memoir.
However, for probably the most half, Are You A N****r Or A Physician? is a coming-of-age story that spans the latter half of the twenty first Century, giving readers a chook’s eye view of 1 Black man’s distinctive experiences in America on the trail to changing into a medical physician.
Dr. Stallworth grew up in Lincoln Park, a “coloured” neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the course of the Nineteen Forties via the early Nineteen Sixties, at a time when the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described Birmingham, Alabama, as “probably the most segregated metropolis in the US.” He recollects the racial disparities, how segregation affected him, and his curiosity within the Nineteen Fifties about whether or not White-only water fountains and Coloured water had the identical taste. Stallworth crossed the Alabama state line for the primary time at age 16 to attend faculty. In a string of vignettes, Stallworth chronicles his life experiences from childhood curiosity about WHITE ONLY water fountains to beginning faculty as a freshman at Howard College as a sixteen-year-old and pledging Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Within the memoir, Dr. Stallworth admits that faculty life and partying at Howard College may have derailed his ambitions have been it not for Kappa Alpha Psi members. He shares that his “huge brothers” within the Kappa fraternity known as him out for not being critical sufficient about his research to get accepted into medical faculty. This needling urged Stallworth to prioritize his coursework throughout his remaining years at Howard College and graduate on time with the Class of 1966. Stallworth shares intimately how members of Kappa Alpha Psi, who have been honor college students, later turned the accountability companions that helped him meet the necessities for medical faculty and acquire admission into Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee.
As a reputable eyewitness to The Black Expertise earlier than, throughout, and after the Civil Rights Motion, Dr. Stallworth presents pleasant storytelling, weaving insightful observations on racial points, as disparities and atrocities of the instances have impacted him not directly and permeated his convictions, such because the 1972 New York Instances reporting of the decades-long Tuskegee Syphilis Research.
He has crossed paths with history-makers and, in some cases, made historical past himself, like his paper route at age 8, delivering JET Journal due to his mother and father’ shut friendship with the homeowners of Johnson Publications. Stallworth tells of his connection to the 4 little women murdered within the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s sixteenth Road Baptist Church. Dr. Stallworth additionally shares private victories, akin to when he and a buddy found, managed, and secured a document deal for the primary Black group within the Grammys’ historical past to win the Greatest New Artist award.
The arc of Dr. Stallworth’s story presents perception into what it was prefer to be Black, attempting to construct a life and discover love whereas pushing previous the racism of the Nineteen Sixties to pursue a profession in medication throughout this period of segregation, civil unrest, free love, and open tradition of experimental medicine.
In 2018, award-winning actress and writer Denise Nicholas invited Dr. Stallworth to affix her Longwood Writers’ Workshop. This workshop allowed him to arrange his writings and publish a memoir that may function a staple that bridges the hole between generations and evokes college students aspiring to grow to be medical professionals.
Along with his medical diploma, he has earned an MBA and launched a number of enterprise enterprises, together with a basis sponsoring full, four-year scholarships to his alma maters, Howard College in Washington, DC and Meharry Medical School in Nashville, each of that are HBCUs. Stallworth launched the Stallworth OhYes! Basis in 2022. The 501(c)(3) presents scholarships to Black college students attending Howard College or Meharry Medical School. Whereas different scholarships give attention to college students with excellent educational efficiency, this scholarship funds college students who show monetary want. Dr. Stallworth’s objective is to award many extra scholarships via the proceeds of this memoir.
For extra details about the memoir and the Stallworth OhYes! Basis, go to his official web site at OttoEStallworthJrMD.com
“A captivating, shifting memoir that focuses on one of the crucial tempestuous durations in American historical past.” — Kirkus Evaluations
Are You A N****r Or A Physician? is on the market in paperback (ISBN: 978-1667871110, 286 pages), offered on the writer’s web site and thru on-line marketplaces in every single place, together with Amazon, Apple Books, Bookbaby Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, and Goal.
Notes to Editors:Creator Dr. Otto E. Stallworth is presently scheduling ebook signings, stay bookings, and ‘digital’ public readings by way of Zoom for libraries, church buildings, excessive faculties, faculties, and cultural establishments. For press and media inquiries, promotional pictures, and interviews, please e-mail Publicity Providers at sunnyoes@mac.com
