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Hannah Brew

Hannah Brew

Dr Hannah Brew is a UK portfolio GP and occupational health physician with myasthenia gravis who advocates for disability rights in healthcare.

Jun 5, 2026

55:43
Do you feel that you having a disability, even if it's invisible, is something that can help them to open up about what's wrong with them?
55:52
I'll tell you what, when it comes to disability, there are various models of disability.
55:59
And I'll talk about the two main models of disability, which is the health or the medical model of disability, and then the social, the society's model of disability.
56:12
And for the first one, that started in, let's say, The late 19th century into the early 20th century.
56:22
And because that was when we had made groundbreaking feats in medicine.
56:28
So we had found the penicillins and we had the surgeons and so people didn't have to die from cancer.
56:36
If you had a ball, we could lancet, we're coming up with vaccines.

12 MINS LATER

68:17
But other days, maybe those people can't leave their homes.

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