id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_njv6fciyangtraui274wu5rv6q R J Simkin Not all your patients are straight 1998 6 .pdf application/pdf 4486 410 68 Lesbians often receive inappropriate health care because their physicians show that most lesbians want to disclose their sexual orientation to their family physicians but need to feel secure and physicians tended to be unaware of the existence of a significant lesbian population or else assumed that their patients' sexual orientation was of no concern in providing good health care to the lesbian population. Women can identify themselves as lesbians and not be sexually active, and Even when physicians are aware of the existence of lesbian culture, we need to that if the patient was a lesbian, then she could not be sexually active with men. yet the health care of lesbians is not equal to that of heterosexual women.15–18 The reasons for this inequity range being rendered invisible is a huge barrier to lesbians approaching a new health care provider. providing good health care to lesbian patients. ./cache/work_njv6fciyangtraui274wu5rv6q.pdf ./txt/work_njv6fciyangtraui274wu5rv6q.txt