Choosing a Primary Health Care Provider:
Asking About Confidentiality
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How do I ask about confidentiality?
Before or at your first visit with your primary health care provider, 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 conditions, 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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Updated 6/11/2001
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