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- Your health care practitioner usually returns calls
the same day you place them, and fills prescriptions
in a timely manner (within two days). You can help
by making sure that your prescriptions don't run
out over a weekend.
- Your health care practitioner listens to you and
doesn't discount your symptoms or opinions,
whether or not she agrees with you.
- Your health care practitioner treats you as part of
your own health care team.
- You trust your health care practitioner.
From your health care practitioner's point of view:
- You are honest about your sexual behaviors and
practices and have a sense of what information is
important to share.
- You answer questions straightforwardly and
readily.
- You recognize that your practitioner can't read
your mind if she isn't going to make assumptions
about you (assuming, for example, that a woman
wearing a "Dyke Power" button doesn't have sex
with men), she may have to ask you some questions.
You don't take offense at those questions.
- You are friendly and courteous with the office staff
and with other patients you may encounter in the
health care practitioner's office. You don't behave
or dress seductively or outrageously toward them.
You don't expect the office staff to drop everything
to deal with your problems.