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From: marcus@wanginst.UUCP (Bob Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: YOU are responsible!
Message-ID: <1199@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 16:19:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: wanginst.1199
Posted: Thu Oct 10 16:19:46 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 08:29:01 EDT
Reply-To: marcus@wanginst.UUCP (Bob Marcus)
Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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>As an experiment: next time you
>are in a restaurant or other public place, watch carefully how waiters,
>clerks, etc., deal with a person in a wheelchair: they will do almost 
>ANYTHING to avoid speaking to the disabled person directly, even though it is
>abundantly clear that the person's problem is purely physical. For example,
>a waiter will ALWAYS ask the disabled person's companion: "What does he/she
>want?" 

In the U.K. there is a radio program for disabled people called "Does He
Take Sugar?"  It's the best example I know of a program's title making a
point and conveying the spirit of the show.
-- 
Bob Marcus                               marcus@wanginst        (Csnet)
Wang Institute of Graduate Studies       wanginst!marcus        (UUCP)
Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879           (617) 649-9731