Seeing Beyond Disability | Dashiell Meier

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Approximately 1 in 700 babies in the United States are born with Down Syndrome. Yet, despite how common this condition is for people, we don’t often have the chance to hear their stories. In this episode, we are joined by Dashiell Meier, a young aspiring filmmaker and disability advocate who has Down Syndrome. Over the course of our conversation, we have the wonderful opportunity to explore how Dashiell sees the world as he reflects upon the stereotypes that society holds against people with disabilities, discusses what makes his favorite doctors stand out, shares his passion for storytelling, and offers advice to clinicians on how to better connect with patients who have disabilities.

In this episode, you will hear about:

How Dashiell currently helps Stanford medical students learn to communicate with patients with disabilities - 1:47
Dashiell’s academic interests and career aspirations in the entertainment world - 3:22
Dashiell’s interactions with doctors and what makes his favorites stand out - 5:22
A discussion of the stereotypes that people with Down Syndrome face - 7:42
What Dashiell wishes people knew about Down Syndrome - 11:00
The movement for people with disabilities that Dashiell is spearheading, and what he hopes to achieve through it - 19:10
Advice on building good relationships with people who have disabilities - 27:00
The projects Dashiell intends to create as a filmmaker - 32:04
How to develop greater empathy for people with disabilities - 34:46
Advice to new clinicians and trainees on how best to interact with patients with disabilities - 37:10

You can follow Dashiell’s film and video projects on his YouTube channel. You can also follow him on Twitter @DashiellMeier.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection.
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition
0:25.0	from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions,
0:30.0	we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's
0:58.0	biggest questions. About one and every 700 babies in the United States are born with Down syndrome.
1:08.0	Yet, despite how common this condition is, we don't often get the chance to hear their stories.
1:14.8	In this episode, we are joined by Dashiele Meyer, a young aspiring filmmaker who has Down syndrome.
1:21.2	Over the course of our conversation, we have the wonderful opportunity to explore how
1:25.6	Dachel sees the world as it reflects upon the stereotypes society holds of those with
1:30.5	Down syndrome, discusses what makes his favorite doctors stand out, shares his passion for storytelling, and offers advice for clinicians about how to better connect with patients with disabilities.
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