{"id":93016,"date":"2026-08-17T17:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93016"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:11:00","slug":"im-britains-first-deafblind-doctor-heres-why-my-disabilities-have-made-me-better-with-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/17\/im-britains-first-deafblind-doctor-heres-why-my-disabilities-have-made-me-better-with-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Britain&#8217;s first deafblind doctor&#8230; here&#8217;s why my disabilities have made me better with patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2af2BJ.img?w=634&h=857&m=6&x=222&y=40&s=252&d=252\" alt=\"Dr Alexandra Adams (pictured), 32, says her heightened sense of touch has helped her find veins after other medics had failed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s first deafblind doctor has revealed how the disabilities she was told would stop her becoming a medic have instead\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/health\/article-7572663\/Britains-blind-deaf-medic-says-seeing-hearing-doesnt-make-better-doctor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">made<\/a> her a better one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/disability\/i-m-britain-s-first-deafblind-doctor-here-s-why-my-disabilities-have-made-me-better-with-patients\/ar-AA2af9Z7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a833e64d25e472da4523b136aa05004&ei=59\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain\u2019s first deafblind doctor has revealed how the disabilities she was told would stop her becoming a medic have instead\u00a0made her a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dr-Alexandra-Adams.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93018,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93016\/revisions\/93018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}