behaviors. A sex-positive and sexually aware physician
will be proactive in seeking out information about your
sexual practices, and will not make assumptions about
your sexuality based on your appearance or background.
For example, if you identify as a lesbian, he will neither
assume that you need birth control nor assume that you
don't. His paperwork will reflect sexual realities regarding
gender (it will offer more options than "male" and
"female") and marriage (while it can be important for
legal and insurance reasons to know whether a patient
is legally married, many members of sexual minorities
are part of non-traditional relationships multipartner
arrangements,
aware of these as well).
Republican doctors than Democratic ones. Even in San
Francisco, I have encountered quite a few doctors who
are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan. What has
been truly amazing to me is that while these doctors
might personally disapprove of what you do, they will
still give you excellent medical care. I still refer patients
to these physicians I don't care about their politics and
they don't care about mine (except once in a while in the
physicians' dining room, but that's another story).
may have to look around to find one.