What is the Problem with Healthcare?

About 1 in 5 Canadians are currently disabled and most non-disabled people become disabled if they live long enough.

As students in healthcare, for many of us, our education about disability began before our training, with what we see in the media, how the people around us talk about disability, or even people we know with disabilities.

Whatever view of disability society showed us, clinical training usually focuses on clinical manifestations and lacks a social or societal perspective of various disabilities.  

This means many clinicians may graduate not only misunderstanding disability, but could have harmful biases that could perpetuate inequities and negative health outcomes among disabled patients, with larger societal consequences.