The previous article looked at why routine, non-sexual-health consults are the most commonly missed opportunity to raise sexual health. This one is the practical follow-up: the actual wording for turning three of the most common routine visits into a natural opening,...
A patient comes in for a repeat pill script, a blood pressure check, or a pre-travel consult. Nothing about the presentation suggests a sexual health conversation is needed. This is exactly the type of consult where the conversation is most likely to be skipped, and...
Most GPs know the medicine of sexual dysfunction perfectly well. What stalls the consult is not knowledge; it is the first sentence. Once the topic is open, most doctors can run the rest of the conversation competently. Getting there is the hard part, and it is a...
