Please give the deaf a fair hearing
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Please give the deaf a fair hearing

Yvonne Lester , (a nurse manager who happens to he deafened)Plymouth

I read with interest Christopher Goodall's article on disability awareness for clinical staff (Clinical, May 18). However, I was disappointed to find that he gave the impression that the people with most problems are those with physical disabilities (probably because of his own experience).

Nursing Standard. 8, 37, 35-35. doi: 10.7748/ns.8.37.35.s31

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