OutCare is a natnwi health rource providg extensive rmatn on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer healthre (LGBTQ+ healthre).
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THE BENEFS OF SEEG A GAY DOCTOR
Search the largt LGBTQ+ healthre directory for an affirmg provir near you who unrstands lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer health. * lgbt friendly doctors *
If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place.
Another great rource is the GLMA (Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn) provir directory, Bce Olmscheid, M.
The provirs the directory have agreed to certa affirmatns listed on GLMA’s webse, such as: “I wele lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals and fai to my practice and offer all health servic to patients on an equal basis, regardls of sexual orientatn, genr inty, maral stat, and other non-medilly relevant factors. ”You n also try Googlg "gay doctor" or “LGBTQ+ doctor” your area, Dr.
Here's how to fd an LGBTQ iendly doctor who is a willg ally to gay, trans, and queer people and unrstand their healthre needs. * lgbt friendly doctors *
Yet gay, transgenr, and queer people often have a hard time fdg LGBTQIA+-iendly doctors.
LGBTQIA+ people livg areas wh lots of anti-gay prejudice live about 12 years shorter than those more acceptg areas. Do they have trans, gay, queer, or other LGBTQIA+ patients? The Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn provir directory lets you fd doctors who are LGBTQIA+ themselv.
Gay and Bisexual Men. Fd remend standards of practice wh lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr patients and addnal rourc to assist makg your practice LGBTQ-iendly. Consult the Guil of Care for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) Patients (PDF), created by the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn, for advice on munitg wh LGBTQ patients, guil for forms and patient-provir discsns and more.
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Listen to the Journal of Medil Practice Management podst “Expandg to the Gay and Lbian Market: What Savvy Medil Practic Know, " an rmative, half-hour-long discsn wh Ellen Kahn, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundatn's Fay Project. The Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn (GLMA) is the natnal lear LGBTQ health issu, and their GLMA Provir Directory is a ee-to-the-public listg of LGBTQ-iendly practic the Uned Stat. In our updated Physician Directory, patients n efficiently search the Brigham onle Physician Directory (Fd a Doctor) for physicians who have exprsed a clil tert LGBT Health (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Health).
For stance, “If this doctor says he’s a member of the Portland Gay Men’s Choir, he’s probably gog to be OK wh you, ” McCallum says.