Doctors and other healthcare professionals with disabilities use social and digital media to form community, educate colleagues, and advocate for improved disability inclusivity in medicine. From hashtag campaigns to an ever-growing array of podcasts, disabled medical trainees and doctors are sharing their experiences and mentoring each other. Together these small digital artifacts--tweets, podcast episodes, blogs--are building to raise the profile of disabled healthcare professionals. Not only can this representation encourage aspiring disabled physicians, the many stories--of struggles and of success--educate non-disabled doctors and may be important in combating ableism in medicine.
This section of the exhibit explores key moments in the recent history of disability-in-medicine representation on social and digital media.