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Disability and the Surgical Career

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If anything, surgery is a career of ability. So, what happens when a person with a disability tries to become a surgeon? In this chapter, I consider barriers to becoming a surgeon for people with disabilities and wonder what surgery would be like were we to lower those barriers.

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Keune, J.D. (2021). Disability and the Surgical Career. In: Telem, D.A., Martin, C.A. (eds) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55655-6_12

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