Dr. Mel Houser

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315 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard Jul 2024

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Of course, I have so much privilege.

I'm a doctor.

I'm white.

I know the medical system, all of that.

My child, who has had a lot of healthcare needs over the course of their life, they have had so much preparation and

And so many accommodations made and asked for, but patients, they don't know what to ask for.

They don't know what's okay to ask for.

So you bring up your child going to the emergency department.

You have the knowledge to say, I'm asking you not to restrain my child.

Like, oh my gosh, thank goodness that you know that you're allowed to ask for that.

But things like, you know, can you turn the lights down?

I think that it comes down to not just in health care, but in life, learning about one's access needs or your family's access needs.

What does each person need for full and meaningful participation in their lives?

Because when you learn that, then you know what to ask for.

What would be best would be having a menu.

The burden is not on you to come up with your own ideas for your accommodations.

That's why we make these free resources and we post all over social media about them.

And so, you know, it's the idea of like providing ideas for then people to go and ask for them because they're not hard.

They're also free.

It's literally free to shut the lights off.

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