Impossible Standards to Live Up To

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Impossible Standards to Live Up To

Description

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, the belief is that if they managed to do it, everyone else should be expected to as well.
During Cejas’s neurology training program, a now disabled physician, there were several months when she was required to work a 14-hour shift for six consecutive nights. This can be seen in the picture attached below.

“It’s impossible to live up to that standard, whether you are disabled or not,” she said. “I’m thinking about how one of my friends in residency who got a kidney stone because she was holding her urine for too long. That’s something that happens all the time.” (Lu, 2021)

Creator

Wendy Lu

Source

Lu, W. (2021, July 22). Disabled Doctors Were Called Too ‘Weak’ To Be In Medicine. It’s Hurting The Entire System. From Huffpost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/disabled-doctors-medicine-ableism_n_60f86967e4b0ca689fa560dc

Publisher

Mahvish Nazar

Date

2021

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Citation

Wendy Lu , “Impossible Standards to Live Up To,” Disability Inclusivity in Medicine: Representations, Policies, Environment, and Technologies, accessed April 5, 2025, https://mail.dhd752groupproject.digital.uic.edu/items/show/60.

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