Employees with Disabilities - featuring Ro Bowman (Part 1)

Meet Ro, nurse navigator and head of the Employees with Disabilities and Allies Resource Group (ERG). She shares her dual perspectives of being a healthcare provider and a patient, and how ableism can be confronted gracefully from either side. This is Part 1 of 2.

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction to Ro
1:40 Ableism in Healthcare
3:24 The Disability Con
4:17 We're All Patients
5:57 Diagnostic Overshadowing
7:08 Transgender Broken Arm Syndrome
8:11 A "Reasonable Patient"
9:39 "Pain-Relief Seeking" instead of "Drug-Seeking"
11:09 Gender Inequities in Pain Management
12:55 Professionals Under Strain
14:23 Disabled Employee Resources Groups
15:08 Outro

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[Image Description: Centered is Ro, a White woman with short red hair and glasses wearing a composed smile. She's holding up a small doll of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and behind her is a colorful office wall and shelf. On the left is text that reads "Disabled" and then text with strikethrough "Employee, Nurse, Marine" and then more text "ENOUGH!"]