e but do not provide for self-sufficiency. It is the contention of Rubin and Millard that persons with disabilities who do succeed in providing for themselves are likely to be viewed as exceptional people, and this trend tends to keep disabled people in a position of dependency.
Charles Dougherty of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics of Creighton University argues that it is the duty of all professionals to defend patient autonomy. Persons who require rehabilitation services are not inferior or flawed, they are simply people who are in need is specific help with specific things. They may have had an accident and need assistance with adjustments to their new handicap. Those types of life changes can be frightening and disorienting, and it is up to the rehabilitation professional to deal with the client with the greatest sense of fairness. Dougherty holds that the three values of happiness, freedom, and fairness must underlie all rehabilitation work (1991, p. 7). With this type of viewpoint it becomes unconscionable for conflicts of interest to
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