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The updated solution details for the levonorgestrel intrauterine device will let a duration of use of five years and state that the device has a D interest due to its pregnancy rate of less than 1 per 100 woman years. We think that instant action is essential by the government, the armed solutions, along with the Basic Medical Council. Thirdly, some gay and lesbian doctors in instruction inside the NHS are nevertheless reluctant to be open about their sexuality for fear of discrimination by colleagues. We are able to give them some comfort by pointing towards the Common Health-related Council's guidance to all doctors, which states: "You will have to not discriminate against your colleagues, which includes physicians applying for posts, since of one's views of their life-style, culture, beliefs, race, colour, sex, sexuality or age."2 We recognise, nevertheless, that practice may be extremely distinctive.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. (13 December.) 2 Common Healthcare Council. Duties of a medical doctor. Excellent health-related practice.United kingdom.two 3 Pharmacokinetic data recommend that the rates of release of levonorgestrel by each the old and also the new formulations are comparable more than 5 years, so these information are supportive. The updated item facts for the levonorgestrel intrauterine device will let a duration of use of five years and state that the device features a pregnancy rate of less than 1 per 100 woman years. Clinicians and users can be reassured that this method of contraception is effective when left in utero for five years.M Harrison-Woolrych Senior healthcare 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 May possibly.) 2 Sivin I, El Mahgoub S, McCarthy T, Mishell DR Jr, Shoupe D, Alvarez F, et al. Long term contraception using the levonorgestrel 20 mcg/day (LNg20) and the Copper T 380 Ag intrauterine devices: a 5 year randomised study. Contraception 1990;42:361-78. three Sivin I, Stern J, Coutinho E, Mattos C, El Mahgoub S, Diaz S, et al. Prolonged intrauterine contraception: a seven year randomised study of your levonorgestrel 20 mcg/day (LNg20) plus the Copper T 380 Ag IUDs. Contraception 1991;44:473-80.Discrimination against gay and lesbian medical doctors goes against GMC's guidanceEditor--As co-chairs on the Gay and Lesbian Association of Physicians and Dentists (GLADD) we had been concerned about an anonymous letter published in Career Focus numerous months ago.1 It was by a gay medical professional within a education post and raises various essential troubles. Firstly, as the writer pointed out, gay and lesbian doctors inside the armed solutions are liable to dismissal for no other reason than their sexuality. This occurred to among our members in 1997 after he was "outed" by a tabloid newspaper. Secondly, doctors inside the armed solutions are essential to report service personnel whom they know to be homosexual even though this details has been acquired throughout a clinical consultation and inside the information that the particular person concerned is going to be dismissed. In any other context such breach of confidentiality could quantity to expert misconduct.