Posted on 02/20/2020 11:59:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Aliya Feroe recalls the flustered OB-GYN who referred her to another physician after learning she identified as queer. For Rhi Ledgerwood, who was designated female at birth, identifies as trans and doesn’t have sex with men, it was a doctor advising about condoms and pregnancy prevention. For Tim Keyes, who came out as gay at age 17, it’s when doctors automatically assumed he sleeps with women.
Ask any LGBTQ patient about awkward doctor visits and chances are they’ll have a story to tell.
When being heterosexual is presumed even in doctors’ offices, those who identify otherwise can feel marginalized and less likely to seek medical care, contributing to health problems that include high rates of depression, suicidal behavior, alcohol and drug use and inadequate health screenings, LGBTQ advocates say.
Now, moves are afoot to remedy that. The American Medical Association vowed in November to push for a federal ban on gay conversion therapy. Medical schools are beefing up education on LBGTQ health issues. And some schools are making a major push to recruit LGBTQ medical students, backed by research showing that patients often get better care when treated by doctors more like them.
Feroe, Keyes and Ledgerwood — all pursuing medical careers — are part of the trend.
“LGBTQ physicians deserve an equal standing in the medical community and LGBTQ patients deserve the same quality of care awarded to anyone else,” said Feroe, a third-year Harvard medical student.
Increasing LGBTQ enrollment and training in LGBTQ health issues in medical schools can help achieve those goals, advocates say.
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these damned colleges need to stop this racist, sexist, religious, and national origin discrimination
they admit and deny admission to people based on race
they now admit people based on (perversity) sexual pratices
they admit and deny admission to people based on faith
they recruit students from communist China and elsewhere, thus denying admission to qualified American citizens
they often play similar discriminatory games with financial aid
they are as bad as Nazi Germany and need to be cleaned up NOW!
I’ve known some gay doc’s....
Lots of Proctologists I imagine.
Oh for God’s sakes
ENOUGH
I was pretty desperate to get in med school, and I will tell you that if all I needed was to say, I was gay, to get in I would tell my kids or any kid to say it, even if you were straight as an arrow....
The way I’d get around it, in my mind, would say that I’m a lesbian in a man’s body..
Are they are going to get mad when the doctor asks them how that gerbil got into their butt?
Ass Press. These idiots are obsessed with this sick gross homo tranny crap.
This means never have a physician who is LGBQT; because they were possibly admitted with lesser qualifications.
Who will need a license to be a social justice doctor?
Sounds like a new ambiguously sexual Marvel character.
Captain Tranny Girl!!!
Wellllll there is the upside that the doc can steady you with both hands while doing your prostate exam.
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I work with them...don’t use them. : )
The person who graduates last in his medical school class is still called “Doctor”.
I’m a male lesbian...and proud of it!!!
I’ve been to anime festivals. This would be BIG.
I bet there’s some hot little trollops cruising around at those events! (ewwwwh)
Doctors understand basic biology. Shocking!
To Whom it May Concern: I will never knowingly allow a LGBTQ person to treat me or give me any medical advice! They are in need of psychiatric help and more than a few need to be committed to an institution.
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