““Fair and Accessible Healthcare”.
True stories help explore what is and isn’t working in Australia today.
A webinar organised by Physical Disability Australia features contributions from people who have encountered challenges and unfairness, professionals, government representatives and academics in the disability access space.
Carol Taylor might have thought nothing could be worse than suddenly finding herself quadraplegic after a terrible car crash 24 years ago.
In 2001 the car she, and her newlywed husband Robert, were driving in hit some black ice and rolled twice. On that second roll, the roof collapsed, severing her spinal cord. In that split-second Carol’s life utterly changed. She was quadriplegic, completely paralysed from the chest down and unable to use her hands.
Through incredible determination and supported by the strong love of a wonderful husband – and later a child – a family emerged from that wreckage. Carol began a career as a mother, lawyer, and later entrepreneur. But, of course, she always remained in that wheelchair . . . and that still continues to frame who she is, for so many people she interacts with.
This is the story Carol brings to Physical Disability Australia’s special webinar.
How simple, yet vital, it was for her to overcome the unconscious bias that could have prevented her – as a ‘cripple’ – from receiving the mammogram that identified the cancer that was beginning to creep through her body and that could have killed her.”
Thank you to Nic Stuart for putting together this article and to Carol Taylor for sharing her story.
https://www.abilitynews.org/p/fair-and-accessible-healthcare-b882
