This project explores the varied tracks through which disabled medical practitioners and topics of disability in medicine more broadly have emerged. The exhibit guides visitors to consider how these topics are increasingly being attended to and invested in from an increasing number of angles and range of stakeholders.
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The letter sent to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) by Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI) on December 3, 2021. Over 650 individuals signed onto the letter.
Image description: A two-and-a-half page letter featuring a formal layout.
An copy of the text may be found on MSDCI's public google drive:…
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Literary Representation of Doctors with Disabilities
There have been very few accurate and meaningful representations of doctors with disabilities in fiction. There is a dearth of disabled doctors in…
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3. Workplace Culture and Medicine
Doctors have always been imagined as superheroes or miracleworkers who cure others but cannot be sick or have any disability...