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-: Hi, my name is Julio Hernandez Rodriguez.
-: My name's Michelle Garrido.
-: I'm originally from San Salvador, El Salvador.
I have a specialty in family medicine
with a professional interest in geriatrics
and LGBTQ+ health.
-: Now my main focus and where I'm prioritizing my energy
and my passion is in LGBTQ health.
-: So, one of the aspects that helps me relate to,
for example, LGBTQ+ community is the fact that,
you know, I grew up in El Salvador
and it's not a society as open as the United States.
And sometimes I understand the hesitation of patients
to disclose personal information.
-: Coming from a immigrant family,
where it was very conservative, heteronormative,
I was always a little different than everyone else.
-: I share with them my personal experience, you know,
the discrimination stigma that sometimes I have faced myself
and they feel more comfortable disclosing, you know,
information that is relevant and important for me
to treat their medical problems in a good way.
-: Because I am a lesbian and I'm out and I am a doctor,
I could provide a personal and a professional perspective
of kind of making medicine more inclusive to my population,
my family, but everybody really.
So we're working on three main things we've done.
Number one, forms, updated forms.
Made it more inclusive where it's a name,
so you're like, let's say your legal name
and a name that you like to go by.
We have sexual orientation, heterosexual, lesbian,
gay, trans, and then we also have gender queer,
there's all these new terms.
We're in the process
of updating the electronic medical record.
When we do, for example, like sexual history,
which it'll have more inclusive terms in there,
and a template that will help providers
kind of guide them through, and that's what we want.
And three, pronoun stickers.
We're wearing like our pronouns on our IDs.
So we're doing all of those things
to promote more inclusivity.
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-: I think that's a good way, not only to improve
for the care of one patient,
but for all the patients in that community.
So I welcome the feedback from my LGBTQ+ patients.
-: The more we are comfortable talking about who we are,
how we are treated differently, the conversations improve,
and this is where we could actually make change.