As an amputee in medical school, I've been mindful of how students are taught about disability. What do I want my medical school to teach students about patients like me?
Amplitude / Alexandra Capellini
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Sweet Surprises of Social Distancing
by Alexandra Capellini I ended the call as we said “Good night” and checked my phone’s log: We’d been talking for an hour and 35 minutes. Was that too long for a weeknight when I had homework to finish and lab the next morning? It didn’t seem to matter. We had a lot to cover....
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1st Person: Actions Speak Louder
Counselors at the Amputee Coalition's Youth Camp exemplify proud, positive attitudes toward with limb loss. The role modeling not only helps the campers, it also helps the counselors.
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Amputee Newsmakers: May 27-June 2, 2021
The Modern Love column in the Sunday New York Times has never been part of our regular reading rotation. We used to skip it even back in our pre-parenthood days, when we had time to plow through the whole paper—magazine, book reviews, all of it. So we’re grateful to the Modern Love readers who turned...
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Millennials on the March
Don’t look back, Baby Boom amputees. Millennials and Gen Zers are nipping at your heels. “When you get a disability, you start to think really critically about things,” says bilateral amputee Samuel Rossiello. “There are a lot of people in my age group that just don’t know how to deal with mediocrity.” That’s one of...