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CASE STUDY: My obese gay patient just told me he is a Bear.
What does that mean, and how can I support his health?
FREE RESOURCE: Trans Care BC Primary Care Toolkit
This resource continues the groundbreaking work in gender-affirming care that has evolved from Vancouver-based healthcare providers for more than a decade.
FREE RESOURCE: Trans Primary Care Guide from Rainbow Health Ontario
Rainbow Health Ontario has created an excellent resource for healthcare providers and trainees with regards to providing gender-affirming care. initially launched in 2016, it was a recently updated along with the 4th edition of the primary care guidelines from Sherbourne Health Clinic in Toronto, a leading provider 2SLGBTQ+ care.
We have 15 minutes today
We know that doctors of different types and stripes have different appointment lengths, and if you're working on an inpatient service you may not have a specific schedule. Regardless of whether you have eight, fifteen or thirty minutes (like I do in my clinic for...
What if my patient has too many issues to discuss during the visit?
The laundry list A common gripe from doctors is the patient who arrives with a never-ending list of issues. “These patients have unrealistic expectations,” they complain. “We can’t possibly address them all in the short time we have.” We might think that...
Agenda setting for the doctor-patient clinical encounter
Ask ‘What else?’ As doctors, there are few things more frustrating than attending a department or other meeting without a clear agenda, so it makes sense that we and our patients have the same expectation of why we are meeting and why we’re gathering and what we’re...