"For example, a former patient had lots of housing problems. He had also been sexually assaulted by his partner. But I had the information as a queer person about how to get him housed: that wasn’t me as a physio doing that, that was me as a fellow gay man.
The only humane response was to be a gay man in that situation, not to be a physio in that situation. Literally, by that evening, he had a bed. That is because I’m queer and active in the community."
How ridiculous.
Either this was a person acting in their own personal capacity to respond with empathy and understanding to a fellow human being in crisis (more power to JH's elbow)..........
OR, as a professional, he had no business intervening without taking a detailed physical and mental health history.
If he is responding as a gay man active in his community, why on earth is that brought into work?
Does he want a round of applause at work, for doing what any decent person would have done?
Lots of things I have done in my personal life might get a clap on the back from my fellow professionals...but I am never going to be writing about it in my professional magazine, nor talking about it at work.
Seriously, if I was supervising this young man, I would be suggesting that there was some work to be done on his boundaries and professional attitudes.