英文摘要 |
Taiwan government has started promoting the gender mainstreaming policies since 2003. It aims to implement gender-sensitive policies in the areas of internal affairs, education, national defense, medicine, economics and social welfare. It focused on men and women in early stage, and extended to lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and other sexual minorities (LGBT). As this article is concerned about the right for LGBT that enjoying friendly healthcare is the basic human right, and expected to attract more discussion on the issue from the medical professionals. There are three sections: first, a set of Q & A discussing requently asked questions, such as, why there are LGBT? How different is homosexual? Are homosexuals the carriers of HIV/AIDS? We then give three cases to illustrate the mutual benefit that physicians and patients can have if they trust each other. Finally, we provide five suggestions to promote LGBT friendly healthcare. (1) Modifying the attitude and methods in collecting the patient history and don't base only on heterosexual culture. (2) Understanding the situation and sub-culture of LGBT. (3) The knowledge of Multi-gender and LGBT should be included in medical education and professional training. (4) A new way for designing software and hardware in hospital. (5) Be more reflective on allocating medial resources and policies implementation. |