Another piece for our “You couldn’t make this s*** up!!!” filing cabinet. Extracts:
Doctors have been told to hang rainbow flags in their waiting rooms to make them more welcoming to gay and transgender patients.
In addition to displaying the symbol, NHS policy advisers also want medics to be given lessons on how to speak to sexual minorities so they do not cause offence. [J4MB: Because doctors have a reputation for saying to gay men, “Here, you’re not one of those shirt-lifters, are you? We’ll have none of those in this clinic!!!”]
But Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen blasted: “You would have thought doctors would have higher priorities than pandering to the PC brigade — particularly when the NHS is under so much pressure.”
Tory colleague Philip Davies said: “If they spent as much time on treating patients and less time flexing their politically correct muscles, they might get somewhere.”
The guidance on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is in a monthly journal sent to more than 50,000 docs and researchers.
Prof Kamila Hawthorne, of the Royal College of GPs, said: “We want all patients to feel welcome.
“If surgeries find that displaying a rainbow symbol in their practice encourages LGBT patients to seek medical attention when they need it, then that’s a good thing.” [J4MB: Madness on stilts. Why would the silly bat imagine rainbow symbols might have that impact? Do gay men and lesbians requiring medical attention currently walk into doctors’ waiting rooms, then storm out if they don’t see rainbow flags hung there?]
Justice for Men & Boys 
Good way to upset the other patients, especially the elderly, who spend most time in doctors’ waiting rooms, I would have thought.
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and next in military barracks too….
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Can’t help but notice all the FGM posters found in every single room of every GP clinic I’ve ever visited.
I’d love to see those made more welcoming and supportive of the whole population…
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I was waiting in a minor injuries unit the other day and ended up reading all the DV posters, which of course all target men as the perpetrators and women as the victims. That sort of sexism doesn’t make these places attractive to men.
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And I’ve never seen any anti MGM posters.
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That’s because the NHS still carries out MGM on boys in some cities.
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This is displacement behaviour: “We have no idea how to deal with the crisis in the NHS, so we will make things nicer for LGBT patients”. I assume there is no evidence to suggest LGBT patients access medical services any less readily than anyone else. Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence that men do not see their doctors as often or as soon as they should, but no initiatives to make surgeries more attractive to men, by – I don’t know – introducing scantily-clad hostesses or something.
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Indeed. The wishes of heterosexual men are never considered. Men would benefit (more than women, as a class) from being able to access a doctor’s surgery near where they work.
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A lot of people would like to register with a GP close to their workplace rather than in the catchment area of their home. Then they could go to the doctor at lunchtime or take an hour off, which can easily be made up.
A GP appointment close to home might be the loss of a day’s leave or pay.
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Political correctness (and feminism) has no place in the NHS. Medical correctness is what people care about. If I went into a GP waiting room and saw these I’d feel very unwelcome. But then I’m one of the silent majority and I don’t matter.
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“In addition to displaying the symbol, NHS policy advisers also want
medics to be given lessons on how to speak to sexual minorities so they
do not cause offence. ”
perhaps the NHS policy advisers would do well to go and read up on the Hippocratic oath that doctors are supposed to practice under?
most ( if not all of us) go to a doctor because we need medical treatment NOT because we want to virtue signal about whatever diverse characteristic we have.
perhaps they( the advisors) would like to shout out to the decision makers in the NHS about funding for
prostate cancer cos.. you know it affect gay men as well !!
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