Many of us have trouble talking to doctors, but added barriers stymie people who stutter. Last year, Dr. Leana Wen recalled how a senior resident belittled a stuttering patient in the emergency department; he had assumed that the patient, a lawyer, was stupid. Such attitudes led Hector Perez, M.D., to study the health-care experiences of people, like himself, who stutter. He and his colleagues found that … Read More→