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henry@tahurangi.ads.com (Henry Mensch) writes:
: dcook@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Daniel B. Cook) writes:
: |> 
: |> I am looking for a new general practice (GP) physician.
: |> I have recently moved to the Pacific Heights area of 
: |> San Francisco and would like to get a new doctor with an
: |> office close to that area of town. 
: 
: 
: i also need recommendations for a GP in that part of town (my home is
: conveniently located right behind california pacific <formerly pacific
: presbyterian> hospital).  i am a member of the bay pacific hmo, so i have to
: choose a doctor in their plan (if you have a GP who's good but you don't know
: if s/he is a member of bay pacific then let me know; i have a directory of
: doctors which are in the plan ... ).  similarly, if you've had a bay pacific
: doctor in san francisco who didn't provide good care then i'd be interested
: to know about that, too.
: 
: specific qualifications: the doctor must be HIV aware, non-homophobic, and
: very communicative (one of the doctors who took care of me in boston gave
: running commentary on a biopsy he performed while he was doing the work, and
: let me see the results in the specimen jar afterwards ... i'm not afraid of
: doctors who use big words; i know what most of them mean and can find out
: about the rest.) 
: 
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: # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>


Better yet, are there any lists of "recommended" doctors in the area? Have any
of the gay/lesbian organizations ever compiled such a thing?

I had little choice of what GP to choose due to restrictions from my hmo. Not only
was I required to select from their list of doctors who are associated with that
particular hmo, but only one of them was accepting new patients at the time.
Although I didn't withold any pertinent information (specifically, my sexual
orientation) from him, and he didn't seem overtly homophobic, I didn't get the
impression that he was genuinely concerned about my health and well being.
(Actually I think the issue here was not one of homophobia, rather than one
of business: he seemed to be more interested in me as another item to be billed.)

If I had had an option, I probably wouldn't have chosen him as my GP. But (back
to the original question) how do you go about finding one, especially in a new
city?
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