Another key goal is mentorship. As we build numbers, the hope is to make this coalition broader and focus on secondary goals (compiling resources, advocacy etc). Please DM if you know any pre-med, med student or physicians who stutter.

With these common experiences, some of us have formed a group in 2023 for physicians in North America who stutter. Primary goal is to build community, and to make sure young people with a stutter never have to doubt their place in medicine, and stutter proudly and unapologetically. 3/4

All these years later I find that all my assumptions - and everyone else’s - of how a life in medicine with a stutter would be, were just plain wrong. The problem was I, nor they, saw anyone else like me in medicine, and hence were ashamed and fearful. 2/4

Sounds cool! Wish I could attend !

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

#disability #accessibility #ableism #disabilitysky

-In a way, anyone in the disability community will say these findings are unsurprising

However, quantifying these experiences shows the extent of this problem, and paves the way to understand what effects patient experiences have on their health care behaviors

-Potential solutions are manifold here, but it’s important to stress that considering health-system level changes (eg: longer appointment times for PwD, transparent masks when seeing patients with hearing loss, etc), would be equally important as individual clinician-level training/education

-Signficant differences were found for people with cognitive and psychological disabilities as well. This highlights a need to reflect on what patient-centered care looks like for people with invisible, especially in a system where it’s common to label patients as ‘difficult’

-These differences were starker among people with vision, hearing and cognitive disabilities. This is not surprising given evidence that if you have hearing or vision impairment you’re less likely to receive accommodations at your appointment

I admire Rachel Aviv’s reporting so much.

@michaellevere.bsky.social thanks for sharing! I had a quick read of the abstract while traveling and it looks really innovative - I’m excited to read it.

@elinorejkaufman.bsky.social yes, great q! The relationship is complex- one paper suggests workers with IDD may restrict hours/wages to be eligible for SSI - but unclear if they would do that with higher wages (i.e >$7.25/hr). Also, the question of whether this is precarious employment would be key

8)People with disabilities who want to work - given the right supports and incentives - are able to work jobs and contribute to the economy. I believe this is another such scenario.
In this case, the incentives being fair, and equal, wages.

7)I’m proud of this work because of it’s direct policy relevance, and for how challenging it was, given data constraints (good quality disability data collection is a BIG need currently). Which is also why we cannot rule out effects on smaller sub-populations of IDD.