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1bgypr3">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{font-fay:Natnal,Natnal-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:6.74997rem;le-height:0.8;font-weight:normal;marg:0 0.625rem 0 0;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="body-dropp css-1bgypr3 et3p2gv0">In March, Sylvana M.<strong> </strong>went on TikTok to share a negative experience she had at a doctor’s office while back her hometown the Caribbean. <strong> </strong></p><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sylvana, 22, who is attendg llege Philalphia, went to her gynelogist to get some general rmatn on how to re for her sexual health as a gay person. </p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She was nervo. She wasn’t sure how her doctor would react to hearg her say she was gay.</p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Thgs didn’t go well. The doctor asked if she had a boyiend. Sylvana rpond, "Nope, I won't ever have a boyiend." <br /></p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Surprised, the doctor asked her what she meant by that. Sylvana rpond, "Well, I'm not terted men," Then, Sylvana says the nversatn took a turn. "That's when she went to, 'Oh, you're probably nfed. You're llege, so you're most likely experimentg.'" </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="5" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="Tiktok" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="tiktok in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Tiktok" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Tiktok</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The doctor then asked what kd of women she was attracted to, further suggtg that her inty was "nfn." </p><p data-no-id="7" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“If you are attracted to mascule women, then you are most likely straight. If you’re attracted to feme women, then you’re most likely bi, but highly likely that you’re jt nfed and are straight,” Sylvana rells the doctor sayg. </p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She wanted to bolt. Sylvana was so unfortable that she started agreeg wh whatever the doctor was sayg jt to get out of the room. “You're a vulnerable place already when you're at the gynelogist's office," she says. 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Instead, she felt validated. </p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sylvana is jt one of many LGBTQ people who don't feel fortable or even wele a medil settg, and the health implitns of that are staggerg. Around 70 percent of transgenr or genr non-nformg people and 56 percent of lbian, gay, or bisexual patients say they’ve experienced some type of discrimatn healthre, found a survey by the <style data-emotn="css 7qz8rz">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#f7623b;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #feebe7 50%, #feebe7);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Healthre Equaly Inx" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>Healthre Equaly Inx</u></a>. 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et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css taxvoa">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.1875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="14" class="body-h2 css-taxvoa et3p2gv0"><strong>Devastatg Health Consequenc</strong></p><p data-no-id="15" class="body-dropp css-1bgypr3 et3p2gv0">In a 2017 survey by the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Center for Amerin Progrs" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Center for Amerin Progrs</a>, the anizatn found that LGBTQ people were more likely to postpone both preventative and need medil re to avoid experiencg discrimatn. Nearly 24 percent of transgenr rponnts and 4.4 percent of cisgenr lbian, gay, and bisexual rponnts also reported avoidg doctors’ offic that year. And those numbers crease for people of lor: 10.3 percent of all rponnts of lor said they skipped all viss to a physician's office.</p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The disfort LGBTQ people face medil offic isn’t only tratg real-time. It also has tastrophic long-term nsequenc. LGBTQ people are often at signifintly higher risks of both physil and emotnal ndns pared to heterosexual and cisgenr dividuals. As many as 30 percent of LGBTQ youth specifilly experience mental health ndns, like prsn and anxiety. They also have higher stanc of suici attempts and PTSD, fds a study the <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Amerin Journal of Public Health" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Amerin Journal of Public Health</a></em>.</p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Acrdg to the <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Amerin Heart Associatn" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Amerin Heart Associatn</a>, LGBTQ adults are at a higher risk for rdvascular disease pared to cisgenr heterosexual adults, likely due to unique strsors, cludg healthre discrimatn. They also have a heightened risk for substance abe, acrdg to the journal <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="LGBT Health" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">LGBT Health</a>. </em>And those are jt a few of the dispari. <strong></strong></p><hr data-no-id="18" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 1le5u">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.1875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="19" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Built-In Barriers To Care </h2><p data-no-id="20" class="body-dropp css-1bgypr3 et3p2gv0">Katie Peterson, who is studyg to be a doctor and is gay, says that often, the language ed durg a doctor’s vis isn’t LGBTQ+ iendly.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She n’t even unt the number of tim doctors have qutned how she uld be "so sure" that she isn’t pregnant. “There’s jt this expectatn that everyone is straight and women sleep wh men and men sleep wh women," Katie says. "It’s not a fortable or safe-feelg space." </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="22" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="katie peterson" tle="Katie Peterson " loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="1667" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-syga5w e6iqd2">Katie Peterson </span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Jsi Halem, who serv on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundatn, an anizatn advotg for the health, enomic jtice, and reprentatn of LGBTQ girls and women, says that the anxiety LGBTQ people experience when tryg to accs medil re begs even before they even walk to a provir’s office. For many, n be tough to even get health surance verage. In the Uned Stat, sexual mory women and men are twice as likely to be unsured than their heterosexual unterparts, acrdg to a study published the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Brish Medil Journal" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Brish Medil Journal</a>.<strong> </strong> </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">As a physician-to-be, Katie knows the importance of annual screengs. But at one pot, she went whout a primary re doctor for eight years. "It wasn't worth feelg unfortable to go through the lottery of hopg I fd a doctor that I like," she says.</p><hr data-no-id="25" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><h2 data-no-id="26" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Creatg A New Path Forward </h2><p data-no-id="27" class="body-dropp css-1bgypr3 et3p2gv0">Jasmyne Jackson, a send-year pediatric rint at Boston Children's Hospal and Boston Medil Center, says that the answer isn’t solely intifyg more doctors that are LGBTQ-iendly. Everyone, regardls of their sexual inty or genr exprsn, n play a role makg the healthre space more clive. “It really is a holistic approach to both medil trag, the hospal environment, as well as larger policy forc wh the healthre system,” she says. That means addrsg everythg om the trag doctors receive medil school to improvg accs to surance.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="28" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="every time a queer and trans person go to the doctor, uld be the day that their life chang forever for the better" tle="every time a queer and trans person go to the doctor, uld be the day that their life chang forever for the better" loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="1083" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><strong><br /></strong></p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Still, the health and safety of the LGBTQ muny n’t wa, and sometim 15 mut a doctor’s office uld be life-changg, says Halem. “I live by this mantra which is that every time a queer and trans person go to the doctor, uld be the day that their life chang forever for the better. That one vis uld be the time that they fally get on PrEP [a daily pill that rc the risk of fectn before a possible HIV exposure] and talk about HIV, that they fally talk about genr and get on hormon, that they fally talk about their blood prsure and they're gog to get unr ntrol.”<br /></p><hr data-no-id="31" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><h2 id="doctor" data-no-id="32" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0"><style data-emotn="css f1dz33">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="small" data-embed="body-image" class="align-center size-small embed css-f1dz33 e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="what to do before headg to the doctors office" tle="what to do before headg to the doctors office" loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="278" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div>What To Do Before Headg Into The Doctor’s Office</h2><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You n’t fix the system alone. "It is the system's job to change and adjt," says Jackson. "People go to healthre to heal, and so we need to start healg and stop hurtg those the LGBTQ muny.”<strong> </strong>But there are some ways to crease the chance that a vis to the doctor’s office will help rather than harm and mimize your disfort. <strong></strong></p><style data-emotn="css 126wppt">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-align:center;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.5rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.6875rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.9375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{borr-bottom:th dashed black;ntent:'';display:table;height:1rem;marg:0 to;width:5rem;}</style><h2 data-no-id="34" class="body-h3 css-126wppt et3p2gv0"><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="verify that the doctor knows how to re for queer muni" tle="verify that the doctor knows how to re for queer muni" loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="278" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><strong></strong><strong>Verify that the doctor knows how to re for LGBTQ+ muni.</strong></h2><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unfortunately, there isn’t an official list of doctors that intify themselv as LGBTQ-iendly, but the GLMA, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Health Profsnals Advancg LGBTQ Equaly" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Health Profsnals Advancg LGBTQ Equaly</a>, provis a database where you n search for LGBTQ-iendly doctors by lotn. The <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="CDC’s webse" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">CDC’s webse</a> also has a siar list. </p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Another optn is llg the medil office you’ll be visg, says Halem. “Say, ‘Hey, I intify as a bisexual woman. I need to see a doctor that I uld be open and hont wh about my sexualy.'"</p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If you prefer a ls direct approach, Halem says you n also search the medil facily’s webse for doctor bs, look through reviews on Google, or ask for remendatns om iends or other LGBTQ people on social media.</p><h2 data-no-id="38" class="body-h3 css-126wppt et3p2gv0"><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="fd out what protectns youre offered your state" tle="fd out what protectns youre offered your state" loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="278" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><strong>If you're terted specific verage, ntact your surance provir.</strong></h2><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">For help tryg to navigate your surance, reach out to your provir wh specific qutns about treatment or verage you're terted . You n ually fd the number on the back of your surance rd. </p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Ask for someone who unrstands how verage works for the treatment or procre you're terted . You n say somethg like, "I am a transgenr person lookg to have surgil verage and I want someone to help me unrstand what my benefs ver and how to e them," Halem suggts. </p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You n also ask qutns about how much you're expected to e out of pocket for that treatment or procre, where to fd an -work provir, or any other qutns you might have. </p><hr data-no-id="42" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><h2 id="advote" data-no-id="43" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0"><div size="small" data-embed="body-image" class="align-center size-small embed css-f1dz33 e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="how to advote for yourself at the doctors office" tle="how to advote for yourself at the doctors office" loadg="lazy" width="1667" height="278" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div>How To Advote For Yourself At The Doctor’s Office</h2><style data-emotn="css 1qeyoee">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="44" class="body-h4 css-1qeyoee et3p2gv0"><strong>Establish a pre-re route. </strong></h2><p data-no-id="45" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">To make sure they’re prepared for you, Halem suggts llg the healthre provir's office to make sure that your pronouns and legal name are on rerd. Post-COVID, may also be helpful to brg a iend wh you who n make you feel more at ease. “They n help you keep your blood prsure down, keep you lghg, and keep you pany the wag room,” says Halem.</p><style data-emotn="css 1lqp9zd">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="46" class="body-h4 css-1lqp9zd et3p2gv0"><strong>If your doctor’s g language that don’t apply to you, rrect them.</strong></p><p data-no-id="47" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Your doctor will ask general qutns that will help them learn more about your medil history orr to provi better re. Unfortunately, sometim the qutns are asked wh the assumptn that the patient is cisgenr or heterosexual. If this is happeng durg your vis, Jackson said ’s totally okay to rrect them. She remends sayg somethg like, ‘Hey my pronouns are this and this, or my partner is blank, or I intify as blank.” </p><p data-no-id="48" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You shouldn't be aaid to tell your doctor if you're feelg unfortable. "Our job is to keep the l of munitn open," Jackson says. "If I upset a patient, I want to be able to addrs that a way that puts their feelgs above me. Bee at the end of the day, my job is to serve my patients.” </p><h2 data-no-id="49" class="body-h4 css-1qeyoee et3p2gv0"><strong>But you don’t have to be anyone’s teacher. </strong></h2><p data-no-id="50" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If your provir don’t have much experience treatg LGBTQ people, they may start askg unnecsary qutns that don't relate to the health ncern at hand, like how long you've been a lbian or what your current hormone levels are. Halem says the bt thg you n do is ll out diplomatilly by sayg somethg like, "I appreciate your tert learng more about my inty, but I’m really ncerned about the X, Y, Z issue that brgs me today. Can we shift our foc to that?" </p><p data-no-id="51" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You n go an extra step and follow up that statement wh somethg like, "Maybe later I n send you some lks or you n do some rearch after I’ve left." You don't have to, but may be worthwhile prervg a posive relatnship wh your provir if you don't have a lot of choic about who you n see for certa typ of verage your area. <strong><br /></strong></p><h2 data-no-id="52" class="body-h4 css-1qeyoee et3p2gv0"><strong>Ask for help om a patient liaison.</strong><br /></h2><p data-no-id="53" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Another optn for navigatg your vis is fdg an advote before or durg your appotment, says Jackson. If you’re a hospal or a larger medil facily, there should be a patient relatns office that n help you fd someone that will advote on your behalf. The advot n talk to your doctor about somethg you're unfortable about, help you weigh your optns, or assist you unrstandg your surance verage. Havg that extra support your rner n make easier and more likely that you will get your needs met. </p><h2 data-no-id="54" class="body-h4 css-1qeyoee et3p2gv0"><strong>If you’re unfortable and isn’t an emergency, you n leave. </strong></h2><p data-no-id="55" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Check wh yourself to terme what feels right for you at that moment. “If you are not the middle of a health crisis, then get up and leave," Halem says. "I'm tired of my people gettg trmatized or re-trmatized the plac that should be safe and supportive, where might take years to rever om that bad experience.”</p><p data-no-id="56" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But if you are an emergency suatn, try to ph through to get what you need. See if a patient advote is on-ll so they n e and assist you. “Demand that you get the re that you serve,” says Jackson.</p><p data-no-id="57" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Luckily, there are people tryg to change the medil space for the better, like Katie. When she be a doctor, she'd like to work acute re, specifilly wh children. "I see myself as beg this open person they n talk to, and that expands beyond jt queerns and medice," Katie says. 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