7. Filling the Gap: Universal Design, the Built Environment, and Disabled Doctors

This digital exhibit tends to the intersection between Universal Design and disabled doctors in relation to the built environment of the hospital as well as other medical environments. A paucity of scholarship and research exists around the topic – most discourses around this subject area address Universal Design in regard to patient and patient care. This exhibition endeavors to set the background and laying out the groundwork to point that discussions can and should include, and not ignore or discount, the perspectives of disabled doctors in regard to the architectural structures and access needs of medical spaces.