{"id":3075,"date":"2021-08-12T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2021-08-12T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:07:25","slug":"medicines-disability-blind-spot-privilege-access-and-the-continued-vaccine-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2021\/08\/12\/medicines-disability-blind-spot-privilege-access-and-the-continued-vaccine-roll-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine\u2019s Disability Blind Spot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

Podcast with Alice Wong and Alyssa Burgart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join EIC Brandy Schillace in conversation with Alice Wong, a disabled activist based in San Francisco and the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, and Alyssa Burgart, an anesthesiologist and ethicist at Stanford University.\u00a0Disabled lives have long been overlooked, as the very systems and designs of medicine cater to the able-bodied. No where has this been more apparent than in the present pandemic crisis and the vaccine roll-out, which has\u2014inadvertently or otherwise\u2014privileged abled (and frequently White, middle\/upper class) people. In today\u2019s podcast Alice and Alyssa way in on this systemic problem, and ways to change the future.<\/p>\n

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