The LGTBQ community in good hands with Jill Baker as she focuses on gender, transgender and HIV wellness. A family nurse practitioner for 20+ years, Jill works as a primary care provider, which means she is authorized to prescribe medicines and take care of her own patients.
Pressure on doctors to see so many people a day often means patients do not get enough time for adequate care as there is so much focus is on medications and/or surgery, and transgender people with other issues often get overlooked. Jill answers essential questions about the doctor/patient partnership. How important is it for a care provider to look a patient right in the eye while talking? How important is fostering hope? Seeing the patient as a whole human being?
It was her mother’s cancer diagnosis that brought Jill’s career path onto a long process requiring commitment and diligence. May we just call a nurse practitioner to establish ourselves as a patient? Resounding yes and laws are changing to meet this need because the truth is that there are not enough medical providers to meet the growing need.
Her love letter will stand as a significant part of medical history. It is a whole other lesson from Jill who reads gratitude-love letter she wrote. You probably will not guess to whom she wrote it so take a look as she reads it.