by CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with disabilities often face medical providers who make inaccurate assumptions about their quality of life that can lead to paternalism and substandard care, according to an essay published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). “The term ‘ableism’ is not as well-known as the term ‘racism’ but it...
