He checks all the boxes, and even those boxes not on people's list because most people don't accomplish all that he has. He does the work, without an elected title. He was intentional about becoming an expert at both the law and medicine simply to be able to merge his expertise to create actual change for his community. He is also an assistant professor of medicine and a director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia. And the ish is impressive.
Yet and still, it's an uphill battle for Dr. Cameron Webb to flip VA blue. The U.S. Congressional candidate for Virginia's 5th district - who holds both a J.D. & M.D. - is in the running to become the first black physician in Congress with voting power. But you'll need to get him through the Democratic Primary to make that happen.
Dr. Webb believes the solution to righting the inequalities in our systemically racist society lies in equalizing healthcare for women and the black community. The former White House Health Care Team member & fellow under Obama is using his legal AND political expertise to do so.
The husband & father of two is calling out male privilege, injustices, racism and inherent bias displayed by the medical community. That bias shows up especially against black women - hence the black maternal death crisis (that Serena Williams wrote an essay about after almost losing her life during child birth), the real reason Covid affects our community more, and us often feeling like our symptoms are ignored even by our internists.
Dr. Cameron's BEEN doing this work as a practicing physician. (Yes, Natasha asked for specifics on how and she got them.) So, he's got a plan or 5 on how to change it all.
Natasha and Dr. Cameron also talk about his solutions to voter suppression, getting folks elected in states & districts, you don't live in, using his own male privilege to elevate women in the medical field and beyond, why women doctors outnumber male doctors, convincing his wife to allow him to go BACK to school for another 3 years to cop his law degree (lol), balancing fatherhood, service and being a practicing physician, his bomb impact he had on Obama's White House Medical Team & being a White House fellow for 44, and plenty more.
Natasha also got him to dish on how he met "the strongest person he knows," his wife, Dr. Leigh-Ann, who is an ER physician and also holds an M.B.A. Their black love story is one for the books! Yup, we took notes because, chile, we all need to know how to meet our own Dr. & Attorney McCharming. Father God, we've seen what you have done for others...
Virginia, you're up! Primary elections are TODAY (June 23rd, 2020)!
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