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Contraception 1991;44:473-80.Discrimination against gay and lesbian doctors goes against GMC's guidanceEditor--As co-chairs from the Gay and Lesbian Association of Medical doctors and Dentists (GLADD) we were concerned about an anonymous letter published in Career Focus several months ago.1 It was by a gay medical doctor within a education post and raises quite a few vital difficulties. Firstly, because the writer pointed out, gay and lesbian medical doctors in the armed solutions are liable to dismissal for no other cause than their sexuality. This occurred to among our members in 1997 just after he was "outed" by a tabloid newspaper. Secondly, medical doctors in the armed solutions are necessary to report service personnel whom they know to be homosexual even though this facts has been acquired throughout a clinical consultation and inside the know-how that the person concerned will probably be dismissed. In any other context such breach of confidentiality could quantity to experienced misconduct. This situation is relevant to all physicians since it erodes the self-confidence of gay and lesbian individuals inside the profession as a entire and is clearly inimical to superior healthcare practice. We think that immediate action is essential by the government, the armed solutions, plus the General Medical Council. Thirdly, some gay and lesbian physicians in education within the NHS are still reluctant to be open about their sexuality for fear of discrimination by colleagues. We are able to offer them some comfort by pointing towards the General Healthcare Council's guidance to all medical doctors, which states: "You ought to not discriminate against your colleagues, such as physicians applying for posts, for the Cells. {After|Following|Right after|Soon after|Immediately after|Just after reason that of one's views of their way of life, culture, beliefs, race, colour, sex, sexuality or age."2 We recognise, even so, that practice could be very various.Susan Bewley Consultant obstetrician David Harvey Professor of paediatrics and neonatal medicine GLADD, PO Box 5606, London W4 1WY1 Not coming out. BMJ 1997;classified suppl:2.Uk.two 3 Pharmacokinetic data recommend that the rates of release of levonorgestrel by each the old as well as the new formulations are similar over five years, so these data are supportive. The updated item information and facts for the levonorgestrel intrauterine device will permit a duration of use of 5 years and state that the device has a pregnancy price of less than 1 per one hundred woman years. Clinicians and customers could be reassured that this method of contraception is efficient when left in utero for five years.M Harrison-Woolrych Senior medical assessor J M Raine Group manager Medicines Manage Agency, London SW8 5NQ1 Mansour D, Guillebaud J. Information support extended use of levonorgestrel intrauterine systems. BMJ 1998;316:l671. (30 Might.) 2 Sivin I, El Mahgoub S, McCarthy T, Mishell DR Jr, Shoupe D, Alvarez F, et al. Long term contraception together with the levonorgestrel 20 mcg/day (LNg20) plus the Copper T 380 Ag intrauterine devices: a five year randomised study. Contraception 1990;42:361-78. 3 Sivin I, Stern J, Coutinho E, Mattos C, El Mahgoub S, Diaz S, et al. Prolonged intrauterine contraception: a seven year randomised study of the levonorgestrel 20 mcg/day (LNg20) and the Copper T 380 Ag IUDs.