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LGBTQ Health Equity Mantras

1. WORKFLOWS BEFORE RAINBOWS. 2. COMPASSION BEFORE COMPETENCE. 3. DON'T RAISE AWARENESS. CHANGE BEHAVIOR. 4. TOP OF MIND MEANS TOP OF BUDGET. 5. SET HIGH EXPECTATIONS. COMMIT TO THEM. 6. INVEST IN TRANS LEADERS. 7. PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO CHALLENGE YOU. 8. x PATIENT NAVIGATION IS HEALTH

Trust Trans Experts

Like most trans people who have been working in healthcare for the past 15 years, I've frequently done Trans 101 type trainings for free. As a program assistant in my early 20s, I trained medical residents and faculty about trans health because there apparently wasn't someone

What is a comprehensive LGBTQ+ primary care program?

At Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, we are building a comprehensive LGBTQ+ primary care program. Let's talk about what that is. A comprehensive LGBTQ+ primary care program REQUIRES an interdisciplinary team. A clinician trained in LGBTQ+ health who sees patients without wraparound navigation or programmatic support is NOT

intuition is a practice

When I was growing up, there was no way to look up when the train came. Sometimes a tourist would ask, "Where is the train schedule?" A New Yorker would reply, "There is no train schedule." I mean, there was. I suppose there probably was a

The Rocket to the Sun: About Creative Process

When I was in first grade, my best friend David and I had our entire future figured out. When we grew up, we were going to design a rocket that would go all the way to the sun.

the old spiritual equation

Once, I might have boiled my beliefs about spiritual life down to a simple equation: MEDITATE MORE = BETTER LIFE Meditating more was easy enough to quantify. If a 30-minute period was good, surely a 35-minute one was better. If one period a day was good, why not two? Why not

What would a different container for online writing look like?

Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have: * Work that is finished, or mostly finished * Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order) * A sense of permanence