| ID: |
HARP-438 |
| Title: |
Not all your patients are straight [Managing care of lesbian patients] |
| Source: |
Canadian Medical Assn Journal , v.159(4) Ag 25’98 pg 370-375 |
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| Year: |
1998 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, equality before the law, human rights, woman, health, health care, homosexual marriage/homosexual relationship, civil and political rights, gay/lesbian rights, minority rights |
| Abstract: |
Lesbians often receive inappropriate health care because their physicians make incorrect assumptions about them or are not aware of how to solicit relevant information from them. The above vignettes illustrate the single biggest problem that lesbians encounter when seeking medical care — invisibility. Society, including the medical profession, has historically ignored an entire population of women and thus rendered them “invisible.” This invisibility compounds their vulnerability within a non-accepting medical system. |
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False |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, equality before the law, gay/lesbian rights, health, health care, homosexual marriage/homosexual relationship, human rights, minority rights, social, woman
