A growing movement is trying to make health care more inclusive of doctors and patients with disabilities
That’s part of why Meeks and a growing movement of doctors, medical students, and other health care workers are trying to transform their profession to make it more inclusive of both doctors and patients with disabilities through a new group called DocsWithDisabilities launched on July 27. The initiative aims to change the culture, policies and practices of the medical field in ways that will increase the number of doctors with disabilities across the country.
“We have this culture of perfectionism in our field,” says Dr. Cheri Blauwet, a sports medicine physician at Harvard Medical School and a former Paralympic wheelchair racer who has appeared on Meeks’ podcast highlighting doctors with disabilities.
Dr. Justin Bullock, a nephrology fellow at the University of Washington and a member of the initiative’s advisory board, says he would like to see hospitals and medical schools standardize how they handle accommodations for physicians with disabilities. Bullock has bipolar disorder and says he faced barriers in returning to his residency after he was hospitalized following a suicide attempt, but has felt supported at his current institution.
For Blauwet, she says using a wheelchair and having been a patient herself has made her a better doctor. “Anyone can read the books and learn the facts about physiology and disease processes and treatment,” she says, “but it’s much harder to teach people empathy.
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