Dr Chloë G. K. Atkins joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Sunit Das: “What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About the Clinical Gaze, Disability, and Iatrogenic Harm When Making Decisions?”

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability.

Expanding the numbers of physicians with disabilities would facilitate patient-centered care for those who need similar accommodations.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability. This can help clinicians improve communication and express respect for patients’ authority about their experiences.

To make good communication choices for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing parents must develop their understanding of hearing loss.

Avoiding harm requires that clinicians not overly rely on assumptions about “normal” embodiment.