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This book is another guide for health science programs on how to make themselves accessible for disabled students. Informed by the ADA, OCR determinations and legal cases, this book is another example of guidelines which can easily be converted into…

This book is written for stakeholders such as deans, program directors, faculty, student affairs and disability resource professionals housed in medical programs so that they can engage effectively and efficiently with incoming medical students with…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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

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…