Journal
JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 1-5Publisher
HAWORTH PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1300/J082v51n03_01
Keywords
physician selection; satisfaction with physicians; gay and lesbian health issues; medical advertising to the g/l/b/t community; physicians' treatment of sexual minorities
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How and why sexual minorities select a primary care physician is critical to the development of methods for attracting these clients to a physician's practice. Data obtained from a sample of sexual minorities in a mid-size city in our nation's heartland would indicate that these patients are loyal when the primary care physician has a positive attitude toward their sexual orientation. The data also confirms that most sexual minorities select same sex physicians but not necessarily same sexual orientation physicians because of lack of knowledge of physicians' sexual orientation. Family practice physicians and other primary care physicians can reach out to this population by encouraging word of mouth advertising and by displaying literature on health issues for all sexual orientations in their offices.
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