Date: 	Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:47:03 EDT
From: Kevin Speight <kevin.speight@utoronto.ca>
Subject:  glb-medical mailing list announcement


GLB-MEDICAL - Homosexality and the Medical Profession

        This discussion group was established to explore issues
related to homosexuality and the medical profession.  Personal anecdotes,
opinions, original research, news and requests for information about the
topic are all welcomed.
 
        Discussion may include (but isn't limited to)

   *being OUT (or not) in medical school, to colleagues, or to patients
   *discrimination experienced by gay, lesbian, or bisexual physicians
   *examples, effects, and causes of discrimination experienced by glb
    patients
   *glb suicide, addiction, abuse, gaybashing, STD's, and the medical
    profession's responses
   *glb education in medical school
   *the medical profession's role in public education on glb issues
   *anything else relating to the experience of being a queer person or
    interacting with queer people and the medical profession (perspectives
    from allied professions may also be relevant).

       An archive of all past postings to the group is available.  List 
volume 
runs from 0-4 messages a day, with one being about the average.  The list 
has 
been running for four years now, and had been operated from Dalhousie 
University in the past.  My moderating policy is that all messages must be 
in 
some way on-topic.  About 450 people subscribed to the group, at last count.

       You may subscribe to the list by sending this message:

subscribe glb-medical-l Jane Doe

        (substituting your first and last names instead of Jane Doe)

to the following address:

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        Kevin Speight will serve as the moderator of this discussion
group.  Dr. Speight is a family practice resident at Wellesley Hospital,
University of Toronto.  Confidentiality will be respected regarding
the usernames on the mailing list.  Queries concerning the list or
requests for items to be posted anonymously may be addressed to him at

                        kevin.speight@utoronto.ca

                or      glb-medical-l-request@listserv.utoronto.ca


        Best wishes,

        Kevin Speight
        Toronto