Patients prefer clinics to have non-descriptive titles

BMJ 1995;310:1195 (6 May)

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Patients prefer clinics to have non-descriptive titles

EDITOR,--Yvonne Stedman and Max Elstein suggest that genitourinarymedicine and family planning services should work closely togetherin an attempt to provide a comprehensive sexual health servicefor patients.¹ Many genitourinary medicine clinics have forsome time appreciated the need for sexual health care and provideskill in colposcopy, psychosexual medicine, and genital dermatologyin addition to prescribing or offering advice on contraception.Although the days of the old style "venereal disease clinic"are gone, the associated stigma remains. The change of namefrom venereology to genitourinary medicine has helped to emphasisethe wider remit of the specialty, which in turn will aid theprocess of reducing the stigmatisation. The use of the termsexual health clinic might, however, reverse this trend.

To establish which title is preferred by people attending clinics,150 patients were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaireasking what name they would like to see on . . . [Full text of this article]

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