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Have you had a healthcare provider provide culturally competent excellent  health care? What did he/she do to make that happen? 

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Have you had a healthcare provider provide culturally competent excellent  health care? What did he/she do to make that happen? 

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What is the one most important piece of advice you have for first year medical students related to care for LGBTQ patients?

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Can you give some examples of appropriate language to use when working with trans patients? In particular, asking them about their stated gender versus biological sex..

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Can you give some examples of appropriate language to use when working with trans patients? In particular, asking them about their stated gender versus biological sex..

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What are the most common mistakes that physicians make when working with/talking to LGBTQ+ patients?

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What are the most common mistakes that physicians make when working with/talking to LGBTQ+ patients?

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What are some of the more subtle discriminations you have faced in the culture of healthcare that has affected your personal and professional journey?

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What are some of the more subtle discriminations you have faced in the culture of healthcare that has affected your personal and professional journey?

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As chief of internal medicine what policies, procedures or systems have you put in place to help ensure quality care for LGBTQ patients?

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How can you advocate for policy changes that protect the LGBTQ community?

What do you wish you could do more of to help?

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Female, 47, healthcare professional, came to Los Angeles from Taipei at 11 years old. Grew up in Alhambra. Identified as gay woman, married in 2008 to a woman, have 2 kids (7, 8 y.o). Came out to the family at 24. Came out to a healthcare professional at 22. Went to pharmacy school in San Francisco in the 1990’s, during the AIDS crisis. Career has focused on HIV care. She worked in HIV clinics for many years, with many gay physicians, pharmacists,
and other healthcare professionals. Many LGBT healthcare professionals gravitated toward HIV/ ID during the 1990’s and
2000’s. Her wife is also a healthcare professional. She is an ID physician. They met during residency. In retrospect, she realized she preferred to have gay or lesbian healthcare provider just for her own comfort level. She does not currently have a primary care physician that she regularly sees because her old one is not available. She does not know another gay or lesbian primary care provider right now.
When her wife was looking for an OB/GYN, she asked her friends for a referral to a lesbian
doctor. She answered every survey about lesbian healthcare perspective that was forwarded to her by friends. There were only 3 in her entire adult life.
She appreciates that USC has this forum available to students to gain a diversity of patient’s
point of view from LGBT community and needs. She has been fortunate and been healthy. She is happy to give an honest opinion from the perspective of being both a patient and a healthcare provider.

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Born in LA (at the old UCLA hospital), and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Undergraduate at UCSD; medical school at University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio Residency in Internal Medicine at Kaiser Sunset. On staff there since 1993; chief of Internal Medicine since 2017.
He has a primary care practice with approximately 50% of my panel being LGBTQ (mostly "G"). Married since the "window period" in 2008, though with his spouse for 22 years. (He is an attorney.) He enjoys cycling (have done AIDS/LifeCycle biking from SF to LA 9 times---10th time will be June 2018), skiing, hiking, yoga and spending time with my dogs.

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What challenges have you faced as an out physician?

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Joshua is the Southern California Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America
and literary consultant to L.A.’s Skylight Theatre. Gershick’s works include the plays Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, Coming Attractions, Assisted Living, and Bluebonnet Court, winner of the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre; the film Door Prize, winner of the Alfred C. Kinsey Award, honoring film that furthers understanding of gender or sexuality; and two acclaimed oral histories, Gay Old Girls,” winner
of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for LGBT Nonfiction, a American Library
Association Book of the Year Nominee, and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist; and Secret
Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military, winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for LGBT Nonfiction and a C-SPAN Book TV featured book. He earned an MFA from the USC School of Dramatic Arts & an MPW from the USC Dornsife College.