"We need to become aware of the spectrum of disabilities that's all around us so that the people who are disabled themselves don't have to do as much teaching"

Harry Paul is an MD/PhD student who speaks, writes, & researches about disabilities in medicine. He joins us to discuss disability & his superb STATNews piece as well as the impact of stigma & Covid19. He also provides critical insight and understanding around "Ableism."

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Key Learnings

1. The value of wrecking hierarchies and building on bidirectional learning

2. Where Harry has decided to place his advocacy energy around his own disability and entering the profession of medicine

3. The opportunity for improvement around understanding what disability is and what it means

4. How the terms "disability" & being "on disability" are reductive and loaded words

5. Identifying as disabled & dealing with the concomitant stigma

6. What are hidden disabilities and the problems that arise when they aren't acknowledged and accommodated

7. Harry's description of his own hidden disability & the particular challenges Covid19 brings

8. Ways we can improve our acknowledgment of hidden disabilities in the hospital

9. What does leadership in this work look like

10. Defining and understanding the term "Ableism"

11. The 3 components of Ableism

12. A counterpoint to "don't let your disability define you"

Links
Twitter: @_HarryPaul_

Thread on Alt-Text use on Twitter

Link to Harry's article in STATNews

Harry's archive of Twitter threads related to disability & medicine

Episode Transcript
Mark Shapiro (00:00):
Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Before we get to today's episode a thank you to our sponsors of this episode, Laurie Baedke and Creighton University. Creighton university believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the board room. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians, our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton university executive MBA degree in 18 months or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode is Harry Paul and Harry is an MD PhD student who speaks, writes and researches about disabilities in medicine.
Mark Shapiro (00:56):
I found Harry on Twitter actually several months ago and have found him to be extraordinarily transparent and informative and honest. And he recently wrote a superb piece in STATNews which is linked in the show notes, which discusses the topic of hidden disabilitie...