Focusing on widespread barriers to care, these three, short video excerpts from our acclaimed HEALTHCARE STORIES series feature stories about inaccessible examination tables and weight scales and healthcare provider misperceptions and stereotypes. Advocates and practitioners alike recount their personal experiences and recommend actions for improving care. These downloadable videos present an all-important human perspective and affirm the barriers to care identified in a decade of research.
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Accessible Weight Scales
Carol Gill and Larry Voss
Larry Voss and Carol Gill, long-time residents of the Chicago area, both had polio and use wheelchairs. In six video segments, they candidly describe encounters with healthcare professionals and systems that were ill-equipped to provide the care they needed.
Michael Ogg
Michael Ogg, a wheelchair user who lives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, has Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
"I have frequent visits to a doctor's office, neurologist, physiatrist, urologist, you name it, primary care, you name it. I see quite a few doctors and not one of them has a way of weighing me."
Jim LeBrecht
Jim LeBrecht, a wheelchair user who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has spina bifida.
Mary Delgado
Mary Delgado, a wheelchair user, lives in Chicago and had polio.
Michael Grice
Michael Grice, a wheelchair user who lives on the Southwest side of Chicago, is a quadriplegic due to a spinal cord injury and he also has cerebral palsy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong, a wheelchair user who has spinal muscular atrophy, a neuromuscular disability, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.