Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.

Monitoring surgeons’ capacities over time are rooted in professional duties to protect patients’ safety. Aging surgeons should undergo assessments and be encouraged to stop practicing before their diminished skill becomes too risky.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?

The weight of mentors’ burnout born by students is depicted in this image of arms entangling anguished faces.

Research on experiences of practicing physicians who have disabilities could help medical schools counsel applicants and increase enrollment among students with disabilities. This can ultimately improve care for patients with disabilities.

Some disability advocates take issue with the “normalization” goals of the medical model of rehabilitation, but expressions of that position can be dismissive of rehabilitationists’ efforts to remediate oppressive functional deficits.

Confusion over boundary lines and fear of hurting a colleague or of the colleague’s retaliation are obstacles to reporting ethical breaches.

Physician health programs for impaired or disruptive physicians are not coercive but part of the social contract governing professional licensure.