Many doctors are still befuddled by accommodating people with disability
STAT
Jan 13, 2022
Harvard researcher and CBH collaborator Lisa I. Iezzoni, studies health care disparities for people with disability. In this First Opinion, Dr. Iezzoni shares her personal experiences of feeling dissatisfied, not recieving the same quality health care as people without disability. Her recent research in Health Affairs, co-authored by Eric G. Campbell and Julie Ressalam, found that just 56.5% of doctors strongly agreed that they welcomed patients with disabilities into their practices, and only 40.7% of doctors surveyed reported feeling very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disabilities. Read article>>