Category: LGBTQIA+
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Preventive Health Screenings for LGBTQ+ Patients: What You Need to Know
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Explore best practices for delivering inclusive healthcare to LGBTQ+ patients, focusing on key screenings, addressing disparities, and supporting mental and physical well-being.
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How Important Are Our Neighborhoods and Built Environments in Shaping Our Health?
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Discover how where we live influences health outcomes, from housing and food access to safety and social networks, and learn about historical inequities like redlining shaping today’s disparities.
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10 Ways to Create a Welcoming Environment for LGBTQIA+ Patients and Staff
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Find out how to create safe spaces, promote equity, and foster belonging for your LGBTQIA+ patients and staff with these simple and effective tips ranging from revising forms and updating signage to collaborating with local organizations and more in today’s Osmosis blog.The LGBTQIA+ community has endured a variety of forms…
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How to Provide Culturally Responsive Care to Gender-Diverse Communities
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Today’s Osmosis blog offers helpful tips and guidance on how doctors, nurses, and other caregivers can best provide culturally responsive care to patients across the gender identity spectrum. Adapted from the Hippocratic oath, “first, do no harm” is a phrase that’s well-known among both medical students and physicians. One of…
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Words Matter: The Power of Inclusive Language in Medicine
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As healthcare professionals, you will be called on to continue learning and growing for the duration of your career. Yes, you’ll know more as a seasoned worker than someone fresh out of school. However, you will also build up automatic responses and—yes, it happens even to the best of us—blind…
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A Discussion Around LGBTQ+ health
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When the topic of specific medical care for LGBTQ+ patients comes up, people often ask “Why?”. Why is there a need for this specification? Why are there special clinics for LGBTQ+ people in Tel Aviv, New York, and Berlin? These are all cities with a very high population of people…