Articles

Books

• When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes. Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor. Zazove, Philip.1993. Galluadet University Press, Washington DC. ISBN 1-56368-024-6
• Leave No Nurse Behind: Nurses working with disAbilities. Maheady, Donna 2006 iUniverse: Lincoln, Nebraska. In particular, see chapter 8 “The little Engine That Could: Nursing with Profound Deafness” written by Morag MacDonald, RN, MSW. ISBN 0595396496 See review in Nursing Standard.
• Impairment to Empowerment. Managing your hearing loss. Levene, Bunty and Tait, Val. 2005. Hearing Concern, London. ISBN 0-9551365-0-4

Various articles, alphabetical by author

• Anon. Helen Brooke Taussig. Web article about pioneering deaf cardiologist. 1898-1986
• Atherton R & Dent A. Training deaf clinical psychologists. Clinical Psychology 2003; 32:17
• Bond E M & Kvalsvig A. Letters: Follow up of people fitted with hearing aids. BMJ 2002; 325:1304. Two letters – personal experience & advice.
• Dent A & Atherton R. A sign of our times: clinical psychologists’ awareness, concerns and interest in supervising a deaf trainee. Clinical Psychology 2004: 33:30
• Hamilton W & Bradley N. Self regulation at work: a case study. BMJ 1999; 319:585. GP with hearing loss assesses fitness to practice.
• Kalamangalam G P. Living History. BMJ 2004; 329:169. Brief article mentioning Helen Brooke Taussig.
• Kvalsvig A. Ask the elephant. (pdf) (html) Lancet, 2003; 362:2079-80. Highly recommended. (You many need to log in to access The Lancet. Registration is free.)
• Mercer S. Career development for doctors with a disability BMJ 1998; 317 (7154):S2
• Rafferty J. Champion of deaf people. BMJ Career Focus  2003;327:s189 Article about “Philip Zazove, professor, author and role model” – and deaf.
• Redstone C. You really listen to me: Life as a doctor with a hearing loss. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:128-129 PDF
• Smith, S. Deaf Is .. Career Examples … Doctor. Article about a Deaf paediatrician in the US.
• Ward C. A murmur in my ear. Student BMJ ?1999 A medical student with hearing loss develops her own stethoscope.

AMPHL articles

• Follow this link to a library of articles by, about and relevant to health professionals with hearing loss, of which two are:
• Morris, R. (2001). “How to cope with scopes” or ‘Stethoscopes and Hearing Aids – What are the Options?’ BeyondHearingAids.com
• Rennert, N., Morris, B., and Barrere, C.C. (2004, February). How to cope with scopes: Stethoscope selection and use with hearing aids and CIs [PDF]. The Hearing Review, 34-75. (More recent)

BMJ Careers Focus series – Training and working with disabilities

A series of articles to highlight the experiences of doctors and medical students with disabilities and illnesses in the run up to the DDA legislation changes in October 2004.

Links to the individual articles:

• Redstone C. You really listen to me: Life as a doctor with a hearing loss. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:128-129 PDF
• Stiff R E. Life as a visually impaired doctor. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:15-16.
• Parkins D. Experience of a single “epileptic” fit. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:98 Impact on career decisions.
• Howard E. Coping financially with long term sickness. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:107-108.
• Parkins D. Adjusting to life as a doctor with a colostomy. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:108-109.
• Morgan M. Returning to work with chronic fatigue syndrome. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:118
• Anon. Life as a doctor with Asperger’s syndrome. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:130
• Anon. Working as a doctor with a chronic illness. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:67.
• Spalding T. Practising medicine when you have colour blindness BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:126-127
• Cohen D & Hebert K. Access all areas. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:78-79. The impact of the extended Disability Discrimination Act: what services providers should be doing to remove access barriers for their patients and staff. (Predates Equality Act which has superceded the DDA.)
• Cohen D & Hebert K. Equality and diversity in the workplace. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:116-117. “… how employers should go beyond the rhetoric of equal opportunities in employment.”
• Carter J, Cohen D & Herbert K. Tips on …Accessible recruitment. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:117
• Cohen D & Hebert K. Training in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine for people with disabilities. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:123-125 Training requirements and barriers.
• Goddard K. Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:131
• Payne H. How the postgraduate deanery can help doctors with disabilities. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:132-133
• Anon. Addiction and recovery. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:38 A” doctor candidly tells us how his alcohol addiction led to opiate addiction (including intravenous injection), incarceration, and recovery.”

Other BMJ Careers Focus articles:

• Atkinson J. Tales from a doctor with bilateral leg amputations. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:88.
• Ayeni O. Fifteen minutes with…The founder of the Canadian Association of Physicians with Disabilities. (Ashok Muzumdar) BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:134
• Banerjee A. The irony of it all. BMJ Career Focus  2004; 329:49 A PRHO in gastroenterology shares his own experience of serious illness.
• MacDonald R. How does the BMJ careers chronic illness matching scheme work and is it confidential? BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:102
• Villanueva T. Paralympic medal winner. BMJ Career Focus  2004;329:17 Article about Portuguese paralympic swimmer and medical student Leila Marques.