BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
'There's a big appetite for creative ideas here,' scientist says
Virginia Wright volunteered at our rehab hospital as a teen, sparking a 40-year career in physiotherapy and research at Holland Bloorview.
Conveying a patient's value can be healing, scientist says
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov hopes his research will shift medical culture from a need to ‘fix’ patients to a commitment to “be with, to not abandon, to value.'
Disabled, racialized med students face highest rates of burnout
'If you have multiple disabilities and you’re Asian or Black or Hispanic or identify as Indigenous, then your risk of burnout is even higher than that of white students with multiple disabilities.'
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Disabled women talk about what they bring to medicine
'Dr. Church said the doctors' experiences receiving health care "make our conversations with our patients richer, and more real."'
Major Canadian cities shut out disabled people, study finds
'In terms of sectors, education services, which includes schools and universities, was the least inclusive, with less than 35 per cent of locations rated accessible.'
What needs fixing? Disabled people? Or a built world that shuts them out?
'The desire to see technological development and fixing as THE solution to disability allows people to continue to build and justify a world that is inaccessible...'
Why does a hospital need to know your race and income? To tailor care
'The general idea is that each of these identities and circumstances is predictive of the quality and speed of health-care access, experiences and outcomes.'
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Childhood disability linked to slower earnings growth later in life
The Statistics Canada study found the largest differences in income growth between men with and without childhood-onset disability who had university degrees.
A physiotherapist studies how exercise can repair the brain
'To this day I'm still asking questions and there's no real set answers to a lot of the challenges we encounter.'
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