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    Dr. Stefani Shares His Pride Month Experiences and Thoughts on LGBTQIA+ Healthcare

    June 11, 2024

    A.J. Stefani, DO, a hospitalist at UnityPoint Clinic Central Iowa Hospitalists in Des Moines, Iowa, says his favorite part of being an SHM member is that it’s “a place for all of us hospitalists...

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    Aiming for Equitable Care for Transgender Patients

    June 3, 2024

    With transgender care under debate among politicians and state laws around the U.S., hospitalists find they must take a leading role in making transgender patients feel welcome and helping them...

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    Everyone Deserves to Belong

    June 1, 2023

    This month’s magazine focuses on the challenges faced by our colleagues and patients from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+)...

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    LGBTQIA+ Hospitalists Find Their Comfort Zones

    June 1, 2023

    Hospitalists who are part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community have had an array of experiences, both in medical school and...

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    LGBTQIA+ Allyship

    June 1, 2023

    Dr. O’Toole Hospitalists are in a unique position to be allies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community because they’re on the...

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    Better Ways to Handle LGBTQIA+ Matters

    November 1, 2022

    Let’s say—said Angela Kade Goepferd, MD (they/she), medical director of the Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis—that a 12-year-old...

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    LGBTQIA+ Patient Care

    June 1, 2022

    Where are we and where are we going? The LGBTQIA+ community has doubled since it was first measured in 2012, according to a 2022 Gallup poll—it now includes 7.1% of Americans.1 As the community...