Disabilities and Medicine: From Stairs to Stares

Abstract

Description The current state of medicine has done little to correct the imbalance of underrepresented groups in the physician workforce. In this editorial, a psychiatric resident physician retells his experience as an individual who is completing his medical training while being affected by a neuromuscular disorder and how it impacts his daily life. The primary goal of this paper is to elucidate the need for greater representation and understanding of the disabled physician workforce.

Keywords: barriers; disabilities; discrimination; medical disorders; medical school; neuromuscular disorder; physicians; resident; training; underrepresented.