‘I am not the doctor for you’: physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities.

Tara Lagu; Carol Haywood; Kimberly E. Reimold; Christene DeJong; Robin Walker Sterling; Lisa I. Iezzoni

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‘I am not the doctor for you’: physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities.

October 26, 2022

Lagu T, Haywood C, Reimold KE, et al. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022;41(10):1387-1395.

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People with disabilities face barriers to safe, equitable care such as inaccessible equipment and facilities or provider bias. In this study, primary care and specialist physicians described challenges with caring for patients with disabilities. Many expressed explicit biases such as reluctance to care for people with disabilities, invest in accessible equipment, or obtain continuing education to provide appropriate care.

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