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Doctors often don't ask about patients' sexual orientation. (Some Rely on Self-Disclosure).
SAN FRANCISCO -- Many healthcare providers aren't asking women about their sexual orientation, according to a survey of 1,161 lesbian and heterosexual women.
Fifty-seven percent of the surveyed women said their health care provider did not ask about sexual orientation, Mary Ann van Dam, Ph.D., reported at a conference sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.
"Even gay and lesbian health care providers are not always aware that they have to ask this of everyone," said Dr. van Dam, a clinical pediatric nurse at the University of California, San Francisco.
Some providers learn a patient's sexual orientation through passive means, usually by assuming heterosexuality or by lesbian self-disclosure. Health care providers correctly assumed the sexual orientation of 8% of lesbian patients and 34% of heterosexual patients. Fifty-eight percent of lesbians and 28% of heterosexuals volunteered their sexual orientation without being asked.
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