Molly Burke

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025 podcast

What would treat ROP is not what would treat somebody who has a severed optic nerve due to a traumatic accident.

So curing or treating blindness is really complicated and ridiculously expensive.

And thus far, we've not had any major breakthroughs.

And that's just one disability.

Then we think of people in wheelchairs.

Spinal muscular atrophy, muscular dystrophy, paralysis, tethered cord syndrome.

There's so many reasons to need a wheelchair.

And then beyond that, there's people who need it because of POTS.

There's people who need it because of MS.

There's people who need it intermittently.

It's such a spectrum.

So when we try to cure all of those people with medical intervention, we know it's pretty unlikely.

But if we build a world where every building has ramps, has automatic buttons, has braille labels, has large print that's high color contrast, all of a sudden I'm not disabled because I can access that space independently.

I don't need help.

My disability is not that I can't see.

My disability is that I can't be as independent as I am capable of because society does not allow me to because it's built for people who can see.

And so I am not against continued medical intervention.

I'm against that that is the best solution.

I'm against that that is what we should be putting all of our time, effort, and money into and neglecting making the world a more accommodating space for everyone who lives in it.

I agree with you.

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