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[kaberett]

I think my absolute-necessaries list for GPs is:

• not actively prejudiced about LGBT+ folk
  
• willing to respect that I'm a scientist with a strong background in pharmacology
  
• willing to genuinely collaborate with me on my healthcare, with the levels of trust (both ways) that that implies
  
• not phased by medically complex patients

... and basically I just wish there was a mechanism by which I could interview GPs in the same way that I interview prospective counsellors -- the key point, of course, being that I want an NHS GP and have a private counsellor. Also, I really miss my old gynae.

Comments

[flippac]

*nod*. My background in pharmacology is weaker, but it's not like I don't grok enough for them to tell me what they know. Bonus points for the doctors who want to pretend that the distributions the study was strong enough to look at are the only possibilities and to hell with your complexities :-(

Which is to say: yep, this one's gonna be a problem as and when I leave Nottingham, too.

[silveradept]

I would think such things are givens, but have heard too many stories of how the medical establishment treats not-white, not-cis, not-hetero, and/or not-men to believe it any more.

Here's to finding someone that meets the bare minimums?

[untonuggan]

Urgh, yes. Found my current GP of awesome while complaining about dr bullshit at knit night, but otherwise -- urgh, doctors why.

Sends good thoughts.

[ludy]

So much yes (well, I don't have the pharmacology background but I know my way around the classes of meds I'm most commonly presribed from experience and some basic research)

I stopped seeing my previous GP after some major PolyFAIL (which I only found out the extent of when the Practice Nurse read something that had been wrongly noted back to me) and then pretty much random selected nnother member of the same practise who I'd had a good experience with when I saw them for an emergency appointment. They turned out to have better partner-of-a-TransPerson clue than I've experienced from most of the sexual health/gyne/urology specialists I've interacted with (although their language was not perfect - the good intention behind shone through) As I said to Trans Partner at the time I want to live in a world where a medical professional just getting it and only asking relevant and sensible questions wasn't remarkable
All of my partners live some distance away from me and can't generally come with my to medical appointments - and the nature of my gyne and urological issues mean I end up having to do a lot of talking about the kinds of sex I have and the shapes of people I do it with. I seem to be constantly trying to judge what (and how) to disclose and dealing with confusion/ignorance/curiosity and sometimes outright FAIL with the added sensitivity that it's not "my stuff"

[carthaginians]

It's days like these I really wonder if I should become a doctor - just to make sure there's one more safe space for people out there B(