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Confidentiality and My Health Care Provider

 

-Why do I need a PCP? -Check-Ups
-How to Find a PCP current guideConfidentiality
-Health Plans -Reproductive Health
-Qualifications of PCPs -I Don't Like My PCP
-Deciding on a PCP -When to Visit?

 

How do I ask about confidentiality?

Before or at your first visit with your PCP, ask about confidentiality. This is very important and can be hard to bring up. Ask if your health care provider will keep information private about your sexual history, contraception, and other worries. Discuss what your health care provider and you will do when there is something important, like a serious illness, depression, or life-threatening condition, which should be shared with your parents or someone else. Start the discussion when you are 12 or 13 years old, or at the first visit.

 

Practice some questions to ask your provider, such as:

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Written by the Center for Young Women's Health Staff

 

Updated 11/20/2008

 

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