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To the Editor: Dr Steinberg and colleagues¹ discuss reasonable accommodations for disabled medical faculty. I agree that there are many unfilled needs for reasonable accommodation of disabled physicians in academic medicine. I believe that commitment to accessibility depends on the understanding that medical faculty with disabilities can make significant intellectual and practical contributions to academia.

As a medical student who uses a cochlear implant to hear, I have been inspired by deaf or hard-of-hearing attending physicians and residents. Since their specialties are as diverse as otolaryngology, obstetrics/gynecology, family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and radiology, they demonstrate to me that we have the same potential as our hearing peers to become "undifferentiated graduates."² We can also be role models to some of the more than 22 million US children and adults with hearing loss³ and their families. Similarly, collaborations with deaf or hard-of-hearing physicians have generated culturally and linguistically appropriate studies . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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