The challenges to help-seeking for medical students and physicians is well-documented, yet solutions to reducing these barriers are lacking. We need a radical reboot. In this 3-part episode we have a critically honest conversation about the barriers to help-seeking and discuss potential next steps to reboot medical education and practice.

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Radical Reboot: The Need for Systems Change, Part 1

Doctors with disabilities exist in small, but impactful numbers… How did they navigate their journey?  What were the challenges?  What are the benefits to medicine broadly? to patient care?  What are the opportunities for peer education? …and what are the potential benefits for reducing health care disparities for patients with disabilities?   Join hosts Dr. Lisa Meeks and MDisability Researchers and Physicians as we take a deeper dive into understanding the lived experiences of doctors with disabilities through critical conversations with the doctors, researchers, administrators, faculty and policy makers that work to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession. Transcripts for each episode can be found @ http://bit.ly/mdisability-meded

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