| Person 1 |
We, ‘here in this unit, we provide assistance to this type of population and we have an infectious disease unit here, right, which is PID and it’s common for us to have this type of people, right?’, huh! The number is very large, the group of gays, right! And what happens? The service, I, as a professional, care for them like any other person, understand?! Respecting and caring.
Re-examination. But how do you identify that this person is part of this population?
A: ‘Today it is very easy to identify these types of people’, because today, ‘with liberalism, right?!’ and with the respect that we have to have for them, they already come with the ‘trade name’, they identify themselves, and then when they talk, when they walk, you start to notice something different, you know, you can clearly see, ‘when they don’t speak, you can visibly notice that there is something different’. |
There’s still a lot of taboo around this, right? ‘It’s a new thing’, they are increasingly imposing themselves, having a place in society, and what happens? I’ll tell you about my recent experience, I was in a surgical clinic and one of the patients, one of the clients, was in a women’s ward, and one of the clients, when I went to see it, when I went to provide assistance, I realized that something was different, ‘because, like, they will be 100% a woman’, there will always be something, some characteristic of their sex at birth, you know?! And what happens, I went to have a good day, I went to talk to this person, this person answered me, and there from the voice, I also saw that it wasn’t, right?! And even so, he had a social name and in this unit, ‘he was in a women’s ward because it’s right, it’s the law’. But I treated them normally, like any other client. Immediately, as much as you don’t want to discriminate or treat as a whole, there is a certain difference. ‘You notice that your look at that person is different’, not the care, the care will be the same, if you have to provide assistance you will, but there is a difference. I don’t know how to express myself here, but you see that there is something different. ‘What is that person doing there in a female ward, since the genitalia of that person, of that patient I’m referring to, was male’. Because I prepared this patient for the surgical center, so I ended up seeing a female face, with a male organ, with the speech trying to be feminine, but there is something masculine. And so, the impact, you look at it like this, is a very big impact.
Re-examination: Given all of this, did you feel prepared for that service?
A: No, you get used to the service. I need to provide assistance and I will assist that person who is there, but we are not prepared to assist these types of people.
Was the service, in your opinion, easy or difficult?
A: It became easy, because with our experience, we see the patient as a whole, but at first, it was difficult. |
| Person 2 |
Care, we care. Because the service is public, we sometimes observe it. Because in the sector where I currently work, the clientele is female, we can tell by the person’s posture, the clothes they wear, sometimes we notice that they are different from the majority, that’s it. |
No. It wasn’t difficult. I treat it normally, I give that distance that we always give from the patient as a professional, treating them with respect, because each patient has a, how can I say it, the term is escaping me, a specificity. No, a different characteristic, so to speak. And we try to get close to the patient according to each one’s characteristics, right?! Not a difficulty in general, even because of the years of experience I have, it makes it easier for me to approach the client. |
| Person 3 |
Yes, we already do. And we often identify by social name and depending on the patient’s situation, if he has time with you, if he feels comfortable with you, sometimes he tells us his situation, his life. Yes, we do, I have seen several patients. |
So many times I found myself, like, not knowing how to behave, how, as incredible as it may seem, we are dealing with people all the time, with illnesses, with molestations, but we end up, ‘prejudice is a something that (sometimes) is within us, and even if you don’t want to go through it, you end up dealing with it or not knowing the right way to deal with it due to lack of knowledge’, really clarification, understand?
Reinquire:
Q: Did you not feel prepared, was it not easy?
A: No, no. I didn’t feel prepared, I think the issue of prejudice, even as health professionals, who deal with various people, various behaviors, we are not prepared. I didn’t feel prepared to assist in some of the cases that came to me, no. |
| Person 4 |
Some names you’ve never heard of, I’ve already taken care of people at PID, we take care of people, we take care of human beings, no matter what they are. You have to treat people well and with affection, because often people have problems and it’s not even that and they imagine a lot of things. |
Normal, because it’s a human being, you have to treat them normal. ‘Not having any scruples, like I don’t have any’.
It was easy, because people, as I already said, you have to take care of the person thinking about tomorrow: if it were a member of your family, if it were a friend, would you treat them badly? No. Why then will you treat the other person badly? I think so. |
| Person 5 |
Yes, especially working with PID patients, without any problems, I always had a good relationship and always identified with great respect and I never had any problems.
Normally, 98% of them tell us, if it’s in a specific sector, they always tell us. |
Normal, always trying to listen to social issues, when they have them, when they feel free to talk... listen and deal with them in the best possible way, talking, supporting, advising, in short.
I identified a lot, I thought it was really cool. Professionally, we can act directly, and even on the psychological factor we have great influence, when it suits this type of patient. |
