Japanese hospitals evolving to meet diverse needs of LGBTQ+ community

Hidaka said there are many people who suffer from mental health issues

Bingo.

Bingo

People that are rejected from society and segregated, ignored, attacked obviously means that some will develop issues.

This is the same false argument used against people of "inferior" races or homosexuals in previous decades, following a life of social rejection problems are identified and the people doing the discrimination on the first place try to use the issues as a justification to keep doing it.

Hidaka said there are many people who suffer from mental health issues, and the connection with medical facilities is crucial. "Hospitals need to change to eliminate people's reluctance to see doctors," he said.

Apt recognition by Japan.

Enhancing sensitivity toward all people is good -- for ALL people. To those snickering, God forbid you ever have a serious health issue and have to experience the terrors and isolation of undergoing various procedures in a hospital for a few weeks. If you do, you'll appreciate efforts by hospitals to recognize you as a human.

As situations differ, Seibo emphasizes conversing with patients on an individual basis. In response to requests from same-sex couples, the manual has been revised to remove expressions such as "daddy" and "mommy" or other expressions that might be considered exclusionary.

I was hoping this article was going to be about visiting rights for next of kin and not language issues. Language issues are a very slippery slope and can create massive resentment.

I was hoping this article was going to be about visiting rights for next of kin and not language issues. 

exactly - I would have thought this to be the most urgent issue.

There’s a huge difference between sexual orientation and being transgendered.

There’s a huge difference between sexual orientation and being transgendered.

Thanks to decades and decades of work by lots of people that allowed society to grow enough to recognize sexual orientation is not a disease or reason to discriminate against people. For transgender people this goal has not yet been reached, but mature societies are now correcting this.

I would prefer hospitals to be English friendly too, but to be honest I never understood how doctors in Japan are unable to speak English, even if most of the curriculum to become a specialist, is mostly in English.

even if most of the curriculum to become a specialist, is mostly in English.

It is not, terms may be in English (or German...) but there is very little actual language being involved, much less conversation with the patients.

even if most of the curriculum to become a specialist, is mostly in English.

This is true.

Depending on where you go in Japan, many physicians can converse in English.

This is true.

Can you bring any evidence of this being the case? if not this claims remains baseless.

Depending on where you go in Japan, many physicians can converse in English.

Many as how many? 1%, 0.1%, one out of 10,000 physicians? any source where the subjective "many" is translated to a useful objective number?

Also, a conversation is a hurdle much less demanding than a full examination with clinical history, so even if a doctor could hold the first, that does not mean he can do the later.

I never understood how doctors in Japan are unable to speak English

In your country, are the doctors able to speak Japanese by any chance? Why not? Apply the same answer to Japan.

Hidaka said there are many people who suffer from mental health issues...

Couldn't have put it better myself.

the manual has been revised to remove expressions such as "daddy" and "mommy" or other expressions that might be considered exclusionary.

Japan falling into all that nonsense just as we in the west are finally pulling out of it....

I'm so sick of the term "LGBTQ+ people" thrown everywhere, as if these were all letters in the alphabet soup were the same people with the same problems.

The first three letters are sexual orientation and doesn't need medical attention. The others, as the article mentions on the second paragraph, are identity disorders. The only real identity disorder is the T.

Everything else in the alphabet soup, including some of the T like Lia Thompson, are entitled people with lack of attention and should be ignored.

A same sex couple, looking for the right to be married and living a normal life like any straight couple, are not the same kind of entitled people, looking or finding reasons to get offended because someone didn't call him or her "they/them/Zim" or whatever other nonsense.

Sexual orientation and identity disorder/entitlement are different things and not LGBTQ+ people.

GarthgoyleToday 06:39 am JST

Sexual orientation and identity disorder/entitlement are different things and not LGBTQ+ people.

They are all being discriminated against by the mindless zealots, though, so they have that in common. Also the denial that gender dysphoria exists.

In your country, are the doctors able to speak Japanese by any chance? Why not? Apply the same answer to Japan.

There is a huge difference between how common is in general for a patient to speak English and Japanese.

Japan falling into all that nonsense just as we in the west are finally pulling out of it....

Science in no way is moving apart from social development, extremist governments are, but that is not something societies should be aiming to become.

So how many genders does the hospital imagine there are?

To be inclusive and tolerant this is irrelevant, misrepresenting the issue only evidence deep intolerance which can be much more validly be called a health problem.

I'm so sick of the term "LGBTQ+ people" thrown everywhere, as if these were all letters in the alphabet soup were the same people with the same problems.

It is used precisely to point out it is not an homogeneous group of people with different needs and problems but that are routinely being discriminated against. You choose to discriminate one of these minorities based purely on subjective arguments, the people that do the same for the rest are based on the same, you are no so different from them.

@Wasabi:

In my country almost no doctors are speaking Japanese( except the ones that might have been schooled in Japan), however, ALL of them, including nurses and assistant doctors, speak English.

And do mind, we do not have English as a 2nd official language. ;)

In Tokyo, you can find foreign doctors who speak English, particularly in clinics and hospitals catering to the international community, like the "Tokyo Medical and Surgical Clinic," where doctors with European and US training provide care in English and other languages for foreign patients; this means you can readily access medical services in English from foreign doctors in the city. 

https://tmsc.jp/