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Doctors Are Failing Patients With Disabilities

Por: The Atlantic Health November 13, 2022

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Decades after the ADA passed, medical care still isn’t accessible.Ruben Bonilla Gonzalo / GettyNovember 13, 2022, 8 AM ETThis piece was originally published by .Ben Salentine, the associate director of health-sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of guess” his weight, he says, because they don’t have a... + full article



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