When patients are faced with the difficulties of disclosure, family physicians have a pivotal role. The data reported here extend previous work by Geddes on what factors (eg, attitude, sex) are important when lesbian or bisexual patients choose their physicians. Over and above this information, however, this study shows that lesbian and bisexual women must [...]
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Participant characteristics are described in Table 1. Mean age was 37.2 years. Most respondents identified themselves as lesbian, and more than half reported being in cohabiting relationships. About two thirds of participants lived in urban regions. More than half had university degrees or higher, making the sample highly educated. We interviewed one vision-impaired woman, two [...]
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Setting
The study took place in the province of Nova Scotia. The larger study was designed to generate data about all facets of lesbian and bisexual participants’ experiences of seeking health care. A qualitative component provided information about participants’ interactions with health care workers and about individuals’ personal experiences of barriers to care. The proposal for [...]
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Straight talk about experiences with physicians.
How do lesbian and bisexual women perсеivе the role of their family physicians? little research addresses this question for lesbian women and none addresses it for bisexual women.
What we do know suggests that providers’ attitudes and behaviours can profoundly affect lesbians’ health-seeking behaviours. In a review of the lesbian health [...]
Discussion
The demographics of MAP patients in this study correlate well with previous studies describing defined populations of MAP users. Baberg and colleagues screened inpatient psychiatric consultations at a university medical center and found that MAP use doubled over 6 years in a population with demographics similar to ours. Bailey studied toxicology screens in university hospital [...]
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