INTERVIEW Podcast: Do Better by Disabled Patients People who live with a disability are no stranger to overcoming obstacles. But the bias of a clinician shouldn’t be one of them. More than one in four Americans live with some form of disability. This leads most of them to have an intimate, but far from untroubled, relationship to the health care system. One persistent source of frustration is a sense that clinicians may not be offering them the same care that other patients get. This hint of bias came to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic, where those with disabilities were often put “in the back of the line” when it came to ventilators and other scare resources, says Lisa Iezzoni, a researcher at the Health Policy Research Center of Massachusetts General Hospital. People with disabilities have also had a harder time receiving priority in vaccination, though they face a greater risk of severe infection.