There are thousands of clinicians with disabilities in our healthcare workforce who bring their own unique experiences to patient care.

The Docs with Disabilities podcast captures the stories of these physicians who add so much diversity to our spaces.

Created by Lisa Meeks and co-hosted by Meeks and Dr. Peter Polos, Docs with Disabilities engages in critical conversations about how we view and value disability in medicine.

This summer, docs with disabilities producers Lisa Meeks and Sophia Schlossmann bring you

disclosure, a special series that addresses the multitude of factors that inform the decision

to disclose or not disclose a disability. The series will touch on the legal, personal, and

professional consequences of disclosure and non-disclosure and how we create environments where people feel safe disclosing a disability.

Visit docs with disabilities.org slash podcasts for more information on the disclosure series and listen to Docs with Disabilities wherever you get your podcasts.

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Thanks for listening to the Nocturnous shame in medicine,

The Lost Forest.

If this is your first time tuning in, welcome.

And I actually recommend you rewind and start at episode one.

This is a series that builds on itself over time,

so starting at the beginning will definitely lead to the richest listening experience.

Enjoy the show.

The area that I work in, we encounter shame every day.

I work in a community diabetes team and our patients are often experiencing a lot of shame

because the kind of the media around diabetes, but people carry that weight when they come.

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