In this episode, we interview Dr Paige Terrien Church, a neonatologist and developmental-behavioural paediatrician at the University of Toronto. She shares her personal journey as a physician living with spina bifida and describes some challenges she has encountered in her medical career. We also discuss her 2017 publication in JAMA paediatrics entitled “A Personal Perspective on Disability: Between the Words,” in which she publicly disclosed her disability for the first time, sharing with us the thoughts and feelings behind the act.