Sexual health, GU medicine, and a non-descriptive title are all appropriate names

BMJ 1995;311:630 (2 September)

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Sexual health, GU medicine, and a non-descriptive title are all appropriate names

EDITOR,--C Sonnex and colleagues voice concern that the useof the title sexual health clinic might further increase thestigma of genitourinary medicine clinics.¹ Although this isimportant to question, the reverse may equally be true.

Their survey of a small sample of clients already attendingtheir clinic has limited potential to discriminate which ofthese possibilities is actually the case. It is not surprisingthat most clients attending a clinic called clinic 1A preferit to have this title: after all, that is the clinic they havealready chosen to attend. Also, as the survey includes neitherdemographic data nor information about sexual health needs,it is not possible to know whether the study group representsa population to whom we wish to target genitourinary medicineservices. It is important to know about the preferences of thosewho are not already using these services as well as those who. . . [Full text of this article]

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