3 Weekly Incapacity Reads — Andrew D. Pulrang

Most Sundays, I put up hyperlinks to a few issues about incapacity that I learn, heard, or considered over the earlier week, with some notes of my very own added.

March 28 – April 4, 2021

1. Overlooked No More: Kitty Cone, Trailblazer of the Disability Rights Movement
Wendy Lu, New York Occasions – March 26, 2021

We have a tendency to listen to a couple of small handful of activists in incapacity historical past, and rightfully so. However it’s additionally good the among the gaps are being crammed in, and among the different key folks being acknowledged.

2. Physicians’ biases, lack of knowledge, partly to blame for health care disparities among people with disabilities
Elizabeth Heubeck, The CT Mirror – March 22, 2021

I actually hope we're getting to some extent the place the foremost professions can begin dealing significantly with institutional ableism with out taking the entire situation personally and defensively.

3. Med Student's Disability Helps Him Connect With Patients
Nick Romanenko, Rutgers Right this moment – March 22, 2021

We have to study extra about whether or not and the way docs, nurses, and different medical professionals with disabilities can assist ship higher medical care to disabled sufferers.