The results of a new survey suggest that many physicians do not completely understand what the Americans with Disabilities Act means for them.
Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues surveyed 714 U.S. physicians who worked in outpatient settings about their knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a 1990 law that legally requires reasonable accommodations for people with a disability.
Among the survey respondents, 62% were men; 64.5% were white; 61.7% worked in private, community-based practices; 66.5% had been out of medical