Tara Lagu

Health care basics: people
wish to be free from diseases that are preventable; want ongoing scientific progress for conditions that are not; and want access to care even if they happen to be poor, sick, disabled, or aged. We can argue about the how, but the tenets themselves are not negotiable.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Thank you, @liebschutz.bsky.social for speaking out about this. This is devastating news for our community of scientists and clinicians and worse news for our patients. contact your congressional representatives! www.science.org/content/arti...

Paper on the (lack) of disability education in us medical school is out in @journalgim.bsky.social !

Going to try to be "severed" on social media, with a few exceptions:

-LinkedIn for my work risk-based contracts, ACOs, and MA
-Bluesky for work on health equity (esp disablity!) imp sci (esp cardiac rehabilitation!), and "fun"

Yes, my eyes flutter as I enter #severance mode on bluesky. Jealous?

Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds “Doctors do not know how to care for people with disabilities because they never learned”

Excited about media coverage for our new paper on how we fail to teach future physicians about disability: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a...

#DisabilityInclusion #MedEd #HealthEquity #DisabilityCurriculum @docswithdisability.bsky.social

Our paper on disability in med ed is in JGIM! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Medical school and residency has failed to prepare students to care for people with disabilities-with dire consequences.
#DisabilityInclusion #MedEd #HealthEquity #DisabilityCurriculum @docswithdisability.bsky.social