Erica Dwyer

MD/PhD. Hospitalist @CHAlliance via Austria, Germany, S Africa. Momo & Lee’s mom. I wear hearing aids. #DocsWithDisabilities

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@Mical_Raz Sounds like a cool class to take :)

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@Mical_Raz Haha, wish i had ever published anything from my diss…. Ah well.

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

Representing #DocsWithDisabilities in popular culture and yay to deaf actors

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

Loving the depiction of the deaf/HoH forensic scientist played by @sophieLstone in The Chelsea Detective. “wait for the beep”. “i didnt get that Max. lips!” Shoulder tapping. That constant expression of slightly irritated patience with the world around her. Scenes from my life :)

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@emilypawley This was some time ago i havent used petralex app recently and there may be better ones

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@emilypawley I think listen live is only airpods, but i successfully used petralex with wired headphones.

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@emilypawley @KStackWhitney any suggestions?

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@emilypawley Emily, when my hearing aids break i use my air pods with “listen live” which is an accessibility feature on the iphone. Second, i sometimes use the app Petralex with headphones. You can also use “otter” for captions and i’ve been told ava app helpful for multiple speaker captions

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@emilypawley And i dont actually mean automatic slide captioning, but CART (a real time person)

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@emilypawley Also: if you need live captioning that is a reasonable accomodation at a conference that you can request

[Partners In Health @PIH]

Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.

Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.

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[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@ChadRuffinMD I must say… my teachers offered tons of yellowing glue-smelling worksheets with slightly purple print, but i never actually saw the mimeograph machine that made them. Is that what this is? (Haha my first guess was odd pencil sharpener)

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@LeahSoderberg Yeah… that advice could go quite wrong. There was nothing more uncomfortable than having a too-attentive, probably well-meaning male attending surgeon check in with me during surgical cases to ask if my breasts were ok and when I needed a pumping break…

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@DrPoorman When I was a med student my family medicine and ob/gyn preceptors were CONSTANTLY disclosing this. I think it came across fine and made the provider seem a little young / too sharey, but not in a terrible way. Not terribly paternalistic tho.

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@cjmoreland @neonatalPT @DrSomedayMaybe @amphltweets @ChadRuffinMD @juniordocdoc @tpainko @deafmd1 @ArgenyiMD Here we are!!! Also @DeafInScrubs !

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@DrPoorman No.

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Thanks for the opportunity to join the session!

[Ryan Chippendale MD @RZChipMD]

Can’t wait to learn together tomorrow about #ableism & #disability in #geriatrics with @EricaCDwyer @nicolemushero! @BUgeriatrics @challiance #thisisgeriatrics #healthinequities #sdoh #geriafloat RT to spread the word!!!

[Ryan Chippendale MD @RZChipMD]

Can’t wait to learn together tomorrow about #ableism & #disability in #geriatrics with @EricaCDwyer @nicolemushero! @BUgeriatrics @challiance #thisisgeriatrics #healthinequities #sdoh #geriafloat RT to spread the word!!!

[Erica Dwyer @EricaCDwyer]

@sicc_bitch As others said, check out #DocsWithDisabilities. There’s a podcast, too, with loads of info about surviving med training (which is def toxic) as a disabled person. Assumptions that all disabilities should be obvious to patients or happened post Med school are pretty ableist.