This is a disturbing article about how doctors view their patients with disabilities: ...
This is a disturbing article about how doctors view their patients with disabilities:
“That physicians have negative attitudes about patients with disability wasn’t surprising,” said Lisa I. Iezzoni, lead author of the paper and a health care policy researcher at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). “But the magnitude of physicians’ stigmatizing views was very disturbing.”
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Many surgeons assume, for example, that women with early-stage breast cancer who use wheelchairs want a mastectomy instead of breast-conserving surgery, believing that women with disability don’t care about their appearance.
Anyone have a link to the actual study, which the author managed to both not link and completely failed to name, as I'd like to read it rather than someone's take on it.
Anyone have a link to the actual study, which the author managed to both not link and completely failed to name, as I'd like to read it rather than someone's take on it.
Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care Found by googling the author quoted in this article, "Lisa I. Iezzoni", and restricting the results to the last month (since...
More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians’ perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disability, just 56.5 percent strongly agreed that they welcomed patients with disability into their practices, and 18.1 percent strongly agreed that the health care system often treats these patients unfairly. More than thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was enacted, these findings about physicians’ perceptions of this population raise questions about ensuring equitable care to people with disability. Potentially biased views among physicians could contribute to persistent health care disparities affecting people with disability.
Found by googling the author quoted in this article, "Lisa I. Iezzoni", and restricting the results to the last month (since it's a recently published survey/study).
Honestly not surprised based on my interactions with doctors in the past 15 years as a disabled, chronically ill patient. There have been a lot of good discussions about this paper on Twitter in...
Honestly not surprised based on my interactions with doctors in the past 15 years as a disabled, chronically ill patient. There have been a lot of good discussions about this paper on Twitter in the disability community, but a lot of it boils down to, "I'm only surprised the numbers aren't higher."
You'd think that doctors wouldn't want to admit these sorts of things, but medical professionals who think we have a worse quality of life likely consider that be a fact about disability, rather than a representation of their lack of imagination and ableism.
This is a disturbing article about how doctors view their patients with disabilities:
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Anyone have a link to the actual study, which the author managed to both not link and completely failed to name, as I'd like to read it rather than someone's take on it.
Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care
Found by googling the author quoted in this article, "Lisa I. Iezzoni", and restricting the results to the last month (since it's a recently published survey/study).
I think this is it? Note: the link to the actual paper is in the banner of this link. Also, this is my best guess as to what the paper is because the author of this article is the author of the study, and she has a lot of hits on google scholar for her name and "disability": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Lisa+I.+iezzoni+disability&btnG=&oq=Lisa+I.+Iezzoni+Disabsee cfabbro's comment.
The survey/study in question doesn't appear to be in google scholar yet. I linked to it in my reply though.
Honestly not surprised based on my interactions with doctors in the past 15 years as a disabled, chronically ill patient. There have been a lot of good discussions about this paper on Twitter in the disability community, but a lot of it boils down to, "I'm only surprised the numbers aren't higher."
You'd think that doctors wouldn't want to admit these sorts of things, but medical professionals who think we have a worse quality of life likely consider that be a fact about disability, rather than a representation of their lack of imagination and ableism.