The state of healthcare for LGBTQIA+ patients | Cameron Leakey | TEDxUOA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this TEDx talk, Cameron speaks on the need for bettering health care for rainbow communities. Cameron Leakey is a postgraduate student in Public Health in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He is interested in health equity and bettering health outcomes for our rainbow communities. He works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Population Health and Politics & International Relations and holds interest in both subject areas, as well as the intersection of the two. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All individuals who pursue healthcare and medical services should be able to see their doctor without fear of being mistreated, harassed, or denied service outright for being themselves. Discrimination in healthcare endangers LGBTQIA+ individuals' lives with unnecessary postponements or denials of fundamental medical services. As stated in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of [themselves] and [their] family.” As healthcare professionals, we need to be reminded of this right and uphold the ethical principles of justice and equity for all community members that we serve. Justice, in the context of medical ethics, refers to a fair and equitable distribution of health resources; this means for all members of the community, not just those that we pick and choose. This principle is backed by liberal ethical theory, a doctrine that argues for equal opportunities through the elimination of formal and informal barriers. As healthcare providers on the frontline of this discrimination battle, we need to be aware of what barriers exist against equal access to quality medical services for the members of the LGBTQIA+ community and obtain the knowledge needed to remove these barriers for our patients. Thank you for urging others to become educated on the healthcare disparities that the LGBTQIA+ community faces and taking action to rectify these injustices.
I really enjoyed the stance Cameron took on bettering health care for rainbow communities. As he mentioned early in the video, “this is a diverse community with diverse needs.” I am currently a second-year medical student, and we are slowly incorporating more and more of the LGBTQIA+ population into our curriculum; something I believe all medical schools should be doing. Our future population is going to continue to grow in such a diverse way, that physicians need to be trained to care for whoever may walk through the door. An important point Cameron mentions is that we need more clinics competent of providing rainbow healthcare. Right now, so many LGBTQIA+ individuals are having a difficult time finding a medical facility that not only will approve to treat them, but also know how to treat them. Restricting healthcare access to certain individuals directly violates the ethical principle of justice, which requires that all healthcare resources must be distributed in a fair and equitable way. Forcing individuals to drive across state lines just to find a provider willing and competent to provide care is unethical. Aside from this being a legal issue, this also stems back directly to medical school education. We must take steps to broaden our learnings to include all types of people. This is especially important for the new generation of doctors being produced as we speak. They are the future of medicine, and they have taken an oath to provide the best care possible to their patients. Discrimination needs to become an idea of the path, as we all work together to improve the healthcare access for all.
Because members of the rainbow community as you put it, will always exist, because we're human, we need to be accounted for by healthcare professionals. I NEED my doctor to know who I am and all about my needs which are unique as is my gender identity. I NEED to be out to my doctor. And if my doctor isn't prepared to account for this in the healthcare I need then I am left at a serious disadvantage, and preventable health problems have an opportunity to develop and destroy my health. And this is still true for far too many of us today. Far too many LGBTQIA+ people find that being out to their doctor can and does give rise to discrimination from not just their doctor. Accounting for the health needs of the rainbow community is every health professionals business. If there's one place where we NEED to be safe and heard and seen it's the offices of our doctors and community health centres, it's our midwives care and that of our hospitals and it's in the offices or chatrooms of our therapists and psychiatrists. There is still work to do.
Have you seen the increased health problems that come from the lgbt lifestyle? Also, what does a doctor need to change practically since you are still biologically a male of female? Mental health is a different story
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Alphabet people!
You're a Yugoslav...hardly a beacon of humanity LOL.
Where is this world going!!!! First it was lgbt and now lgbtqia+
Won’t it be great when it becomes abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxtz+- . It will be easier to remember.
Maybe pay attention to the context of the talk and not the terms and labels used ?
It isn't our job to keep up with their religion. I don't expect them to know mine
yet, you must have been researching LGBT topics if you landed in this video lol...
Why not simply treat them as biological male and female?
AB: Cause there’s only man and genderfluid
@@victoriatorijonas or man and woman :) very simple if we aren't pretending