title: [Access to quality primary care for LGBT people].
abstract: This article offers a comprehensive approach to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, where respect for diversity and non judgemental care play a central role. It calls for a health and medical vision that goes beyond HIV risk. For those who never had to question their own sexual orientation or gender identity, it is certainly difficult to understand how the discovery of one's identity trait in childhood or early adolescence can be transformed under social pressure into a burden which often remains invisible but is associated with considerable emotional and medical morbidity. This article raises the following question: How many LGBT patients go unnoticed every week, leaving the physician's office without an opportunity to receive appropriate listening, support and care?
authors: IUMSP, Bâtiment Biopôle I, Epalinges. raphael.bize@chuv.ch
authors: Raphaël
authors: R
authors: Bize
authors: Erika
authors: E
authors: Volkmar
authors: Sylvie
authors: S
authors: Berrut
authors: Denise
authors: D
authors: Medico
authors: Hugues
authors: H
authors: Balthasar
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Bodenmann
authors: Harvey J
authors: HJ
authors: Makadon
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010819:Physician's Role; D011320:Primary Health Care