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Debuting on the medical drama “ER” in its second season in 1995, Dr Kerry Weaver was one of the first representations of disabled doctors on primetime television. Having a limp in her gait and using a forearm crutch, the character was played by a non…

February 2020 saw for the first time the appearance of a deaf doctor on national TV in the form of Dr. Laura Riley on the long-time running drama Grey’s Anatomy. Compared to Dr. Kerry Weaver several years ago, this representation is an authentic take…

In 2004, a new medical drama aired on Fox called House M.D. in which the titular character Dr. Gregory House, a disabled doctor, walking with the help of a cane and addicted to painkillers was an unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who led a…

Jack Catlin in an interview for the organization It's Our Storyspeaks about how he became an architect and the importance of Universal Design.

This book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as…

This novel, which revolves around a female gastroenterologist getting hit by a van leading her to being temporarily disabled and moving in with her estranged mother is another lost opportunity at exploring what it means for a doctor to be disabled.…

The Second Opinionengages with the representation of disabled doctors in two ways, albiet in a problematic manner. In the first engagement, we see Dr Sperelakis so disabled after involved in a hit and run and being comatosed that he is literally…

Written by recent medical school graduate Dr Janik, this manual gives hands-on and practical advice on what questions to ask universities while looking for a medical program to enroll in, how to self advocate and how to gain accommodations on…

Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is…

In the novel Sea Glass Island, we encounter the love interest of the protaonist who has some makings of a good disabled doctor representation in literature but it still has a long way to go. The doctor, who was disabled in a war zone is kind and…