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More than 60 million Americans live with a disability and that number will grow as the baby boomers continue to age. But new research throws into question whether those people are receiving the best care possible.��

More than four out of five physicians say someone with a significant disability has a worse quality of life than someone without a disability. A minority of physicians ��� only 42% ��� feels strongly confident that they can provide equal quality of care to their patients with disabilities as they provide to other patients. And a large number of doctors say they do not strongly welcome disabled patients to their practice.��

On today's program, a conversation with Harvard's Lisa Iezzoni, M.D. ��� a researcher at the Health Policy Research Center at Mass. General Hospital. She has been studying healthcare for people with disability for a generation now and finds the attitudes of her fellow physicians alarming, even 30 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Lisa Iezzoni, M.D.

Health Policy Research Center

Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Mass.

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FURTHER READING:

Physicians��� Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care, Lisa I Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc. et al., Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 February

What should we teach about disability? National consensus on disability competencies for health care education, Susan Havercamp, Ph.D., et al. (Disability and Health Journal)

A call to action: Preparing a disability-competent health care workforce, Christina Neill Bowen MSW, LICSW et al. (Disability and Health Journal)

The Ohio Disability and Health Partnership

Nisonger Institute at The Ohio State University��

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