Lisa Meeks was in medical school at Harvard. However, she 1 a rare muscle disease and the 2 thing she expected was to be stopped from her goal. Unfortunately, then came the sad news that her 3 in the field was zero and she had no right to go into medicine. Lisa 4 from medical school but didn't end up becoming a practicing doctor. This was before the Disabilities Act passed in 1990, so she just didn't have the 5 to do so.
Doctors are often 6 as super humans who can create miracles of all kinds.
They're seen as fearless 7, not the ones who are also in need of care. However, an online campaign is now starting to 8 that view. "We believe it is 9 to respect medical professionals with disabilities and protect their right", says Lisa Meeks, the 10 of this project. "The 11 has successfully helped many doctors stand up12," she says.
Meeks had this thought earlier this year:" If doctors with disabilities saw more people like themselves, would they be more confident and talk more13 about their challenges?" 14, she decided to start an online movement called Does With Disabilities. The goal was to find 20 disabled doctors who were 15 to share their stories. Her mailbox was soon16with personal stories from doctors with disabilities. And now another campaign, Nurses With Disabilities, has 17, too.
"I felt this was a really 18 opportunity to introduce doctors with disabilities to the 19," she says. "To let more people know that there is not only one or two doctors with disabilities, but that there are a number of them and they never20in their career."
