Department of Medicine

Death by Ableism

Written by The New England Journal of Medicine | January 05, 2023

This Perspective article by Megan A. Morris, PhD, MPH, is a meditation on her Uncle David’s medical care at the end of his life and how a hospital team recommended care that was “steeped in unwitting ableism – the notion that the life of a person with a disability has less value than the life of a person without a disability.”