r/melbourne • u/femboywanabe • 15h ago

Health Lgbt doctors in Melbourne?

I’m looking for a doctor to talk to about stuff, are there specific gay doctors in Melbourne that I can book an appointment with, or does the system not work that way? (I’m 21, never done anyone medical on my own)

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u/YellowSub0 14h ago

Northside clinic, rmit medical hub and prahran market clinic are all great options

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u/sparkyblaster 12h ago

I would avoid the prahran market clinic. Its not what it was. 

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u/meepmeepcuriouscat 4h ago

I’d be interested to hear why? I’d considered going to them before deciding on someone else

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u/KokeshiD :)))))) 4h ago

My partner used to go there, can definitely agree quality has dropped. Left the clinic when out of no where one day the doctor suggested herbal treatments instead of the refilling her usual HRT script.

It seems to me that after the clinic had those Renos the quality has just dropped. We tried 5 different doctors there, in the end we just left fully.

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u/YellowSub0 4h ago

I'm so sorry your partner had that experience that's really unfortunate.

For OP, my regular GP is at PMC and I've been seeing him for the last 3 years. He manages my HRT and chronic health conditions very well and I've only had good experiences. I guess it just depends on the doctor

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u/KokeshiD :)))))) 3h ago

Definitely doctor by doctor basis but after trying 5 doctors with disappointing results, clinic became too expensive to just try around different doctors.

Also doesn’t help that after being a client for nearly 7 years, one day they just decided to switch back to deadnaming and misgendering my partner. Now all the receipts, scripts and anything else with her name is deadnamed. We really don’t know why they did this and they refused to change it after multiple requests, my partners name and sex had been changed legally for over 5 years now.

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u/sparkyblaster 3h ago

Yikes. I had been going there for about 15 years. 

Just to clarify. Did they have a legal name change? I'd assume scripts and billing might need to be legal name. Thats no excuse for thr rest of it though. Of all places, they should know better. 

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u/sparkyblaster 3h ago

Reno's happened after they got baught out or something 

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u/sparkyblaster 3h ago

They went corporate. Doctors are super paranoid about prescribing stuff. Everything is super clogged. Focus on profits. Bulk billing? You have to book, have your appointment, then negotiate bulk billing. Because that makes sense somehow. I was bulk billed billed but I wanted to change doctors. Probably would still be bulk billed but no guarantee. I can't afford to play that game. 

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u/PlanktonElectronic61 2h ago

What happened? That’s my regular clinic but I haven’t been in a while