Quadriplegic Med Student
- Chris Connolly is a brilliant medical student. He's also a quadriplegic — and the person who may change the way we think about doctors
- Disability experts estimate that he is one of only four or five medical students in the nation with his level of physical disability. The societal shift he represents aims not only to reinvent medical school standards and correct a profession that has largely exempted itself from inclusion of the disabled, but to change the way all of us think about doctors.
- Disability experts estimate that he is one of only four or five medical students in the nation with his level of physical disability. The societal shift he represents aims not only to reinvent medical school standards and correct a profession that has largely exempted itself from inclusion of the disabled, but to change the way all of us think about doctors.
- the focus is shifting to turning out students who will be the best doctors “in the specialty they are right for. That’s a very fundamental change.
- Some of the resistance to change in the medical community, Mangrulkar says, stems from the concern that changing standards might have an impact on the standard of care patients receive.
- “People may say, ‘I don’t want somebody who’s disabled to be my doctor. I want the best doctor.’” Meeks says. “Well, we’re talking about people who have the same sharp clinical skills and abilities; they just happen to have disabilities. These are the brightest people in the country. It goes back to this: What do you think of when you think of a person with a disability?”
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