Dyslexia needn’t hold doctors back

By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) - - Failing kindergarten was the first of many school struggles for Blake Charlton. Diagnosed with dyslexia, he was relegated to remedial classes that he barely passed. People who recall his academic difficulties are often surprised at the abbreviation that now follows his name: M.D. “For much of high school and college, I didn’t think medical school was a possibility,” said Charlton, who’s now a medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco and an editorial fellow for the American Medical Association journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “I spent a lifetime having to ride the short bus, identifying as someone who needs help.” Several years after Charlton finished college, his father was diagnosed with cancer.



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