people with intellectual disability on seeing medical professionals
- Written by: Elizabeth Emma Palmer, Senior clinical lecturer in medical genetics, UNSW Sydney
ShutterstockThey don’t treat you like a person. They treat you like an ‘it’.
This was how Richard*, who has an intellectual disability, described his general experiences with medical professionals.
He was among 18 adults with intellectual disability and eight support people we spoke to for a study on how people with intellectual...
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