Thank you.
As a physiatrist or a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, there are lots of people like me who deal with spinal cord injury in a rehab centre who would have the perspective I have. However, it's the acute care health care professionals who have their preconceived notions. I believe it's because they haven't had the opportunity to look after people with chronic, severe disabilities who live in the community.
There are studies that show that if physicians are asked what people's quality of life would be like, they rate the people with disabilities' quality of life quite low. That's a general physician. When I'm talking about my colleagues, that's their job: They deal with people with disabilities. But when you ask the patients or the people with disabilities, what their quality of life is, especially with spinal cord injury, it's rated quite high.