Posted on 02/20/2020 9:30:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
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. …
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So.its a crime against humanity, if a doctor just assumes someone is heterosexual. Got it.
I can’t think of any other worse interaction to.have with the medical profession. Sarcasm.
The leftist long march through the institutions continues...
AP flashes the poms poms....
So the AMA’s “solution” is to make more “LGBTQQIAAP” doctors, who will be “taking care” of the health of normal people who would not want to interact with them.
Another reason to take what doctors tell you with a grain of salt.
LGBTQ will blow up medicine, just as it has blown up psychiatry.
She shouldn’t have asked the Doc to milk her Prostate. Just sayin’
There! Fixed it.
Great.... now my doctor can steady me with both hands while giving me a prostate exam.
You nasty man! LOLOL!
If I was a doctor, I’d reserve the right to decline any of these freaks as a patient.
How many will become Proctologists?
more krap from academia
we know someone who scored in the top one percentile in MCATs (medical college admission test) and had two honors science degrees with even some medical science courses from a top top top top top university, the best...
and was turned down at med schools...(religious discrimination) and we know about another application to law school ... again one of the very best top schools...that was accepted but the moment the applicant mentioned she’d need some financial aid, was frozen out completely... with the explanation that the faculty had decided to give 100 percent of the available student aid money to persons of one particular minority (racial) group ONLY that year. The fact that the applicant was also a member of a different minority group didn’t help at all
these colleges need to get back to merit! admit and where available help students on their merit, their academic records and test scores, etc. NOT on race, religion, or LQGXYZ krap!
Send them to a veterinarian.
The left is destroying everything that is (or was) good in this country.
This article perfectly shows the confusion that is brought by the left on the issue. Medical doctors are not supposed to tell you what you want to hear...they are there to tell you the medically certified information you MUST hear.
Great! The dr will treat your hemmies, and give you something worse!
Great! The dr will treat your hemmies, and give you something worse!
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