Comments on: How to find your perfect doctor (gay male edition) /opinion/soapbox-opinion/how-to-find-your-perfect-doctor-gay-male-edition/74381 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Christopher Banks /opinion/soapbox-opinion/how-to-find-your-perfect-doctor-gay-male-edition/74381#comment-99653 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:31:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=74381#comment-99653 I’m lucky to have a GP that doesn’t bat an eyelid at issues of either mental health (complicated) or sexual health for gay men (potentially embarrassing).

My family doctor I had when growing up did his best but gulped when I first had to go see him for a sexual health checkup and he went through the obligatory list of behaviours to see where he needed to swab. I could tell from the conversation we had at that appointment that I knew more about sexual health than he did, and given that I have no medical qualification, that’s not a good thing.

By all means, like George says, shop around. You wouldn’t hesitate to sack your plumber or your electrician, and this is your body (and your life) that you’re entrusting to someone here.

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