Molly Burke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Dec
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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025
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And they set aside a kid can slip and break her arm, but she needs to be a child and she needs to have life experiences.
And as I grew up, it continued.
They just let me be myself.
They believed that their job as my parents was not to make me who they wanted me to be, but was to help me become who I'm meant to be.
And I'm forever grateful for them.
Yeah, and that's why I was interested to have this conversation with you because, of course, you come from a medical background where you're taught to cure.
Yeah, and so there's many schools of thought when it comes to disability.
The two most prominent are social model versus medical model.
So the medical model is what society has run on historically, which is the treatment.
It's we cure, we fix, we treat, we heal.
the social model began as a part of the disability rights movement.
And the social model is the idea that disability is a systemic societal issue, not an individual issue.
And therefore the cure or treatment is changing society, not changing individuals.
So that looks like, uh,
becoming less ableist.
That looks like giving us more equitable opportunity.
That looks like building infrastructure that's accessible and accommodating to all needs.
Because the reality is there is so many reasons to go blind.
Just as one disability within the spectrum of disability, there is so many ways you can go blind.
What would treat RP is not what would treat somebody with retinopathy of prematurity.
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