Attitudinal Barriers Around Doctors with Disabilities
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Title
Attitudinal Barriers Around Doctors with Disabilities
Description
When medical students and doctors with disabilities do make it to workplaces after jumping through various hoops and democratic processes, they find themsleves facing attitudinal barriers from their colleagues and other personel which makes it difficult for them to achieve maximum integration into their environment and impede theire success in the workplace and beyond. The artifacts included in this collection illuminate these barriers succintly.
Contributor
Mahvish Nazar
Collection Items
Attitudinal barriers
One of the reasons why disabled medical students and doctors have failed to gain complete access to their environments is attitudinal barriers. These attitudinal barriers either fall under the presumption that doctors cannot be disabled or that if…
Systems of Surveillance or Systems of Support?
Systems of oppression are pervasive, interlocking and inform one another in all fields of life. Similarly, doctors who have more than one marginalized identity also faced greater barriers and discrimination. For example, Diana Cejas, who is a Black…
Impossible Standards to Live Up To
The lack of disability awareness in schools coupled with unrealistic expectations to be “superhuman” in clinical settings create a rat race that doctors say is untenable — for everyone. For those who finish medical school and postgraduate training,…