article_snippet: Omaha, Nebraska (the Heartland Project)When Ryan Sallans, an activist in the Nebraska transgender community, first went to an LGBT-friendly doctor in 2005 to talk about what an LGBT-friendly doctor medically needed to do for an LGBT-friendly doctor gender transition, an LGBT-friendly doctor wanted to offer medical help.
article_snippet: Sallans volunteers to speak with medical institutions, as well as with businesses and colleges, to urge businesses and colleges to be more LGBT inclusive.
article_snippet: While a growing number of medical schools are teaching future doctors how to address health concerns that can be specific to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, studies show current doctors only get about five hours of training, if current doctors get any at all.
article_snippet: The transgender life: What to know, say and understand .
article_snippet: People who work within the health care system have seen some improvement when it comes to treating members of the LGBT community.
article_snippet: Jill Young has seen more hospitals in the region adopting policies that are supportive of LGBT residents, including one that just started recognizing same-sex partners' wills as legal documents that will allow same-sex partners' access to same-sex partners' partners when same-sex partners' are being cared for in areas restricted to immediate family only.
article_snippet: While the couple has found the overwhelming majority of physicians and medical staff to be "genuinely supportive" of the overwhelming majority of physicians and medical staff relationship,  there still were a few instances when the overwhelming majority of physicians and medical staff felt uncomfortable and unaccepted, once with a physician and another time with a nurse.
article_snippet: I'm not sure how often the medical staff works with gay couples or receives training on how to work with gay couples," Yarwood said.
article_snippet: Yarwood's prognosis is good, and the couple looks with optimism to a future of having more access to LGBT-inclusive health care facilities and a more inclusive state overall.
article_snippet: Hopefully, by the time we get through the cancer and save a little money," Persen said, "Nebraska will follow most other states and allow we relationship to be legally recognized.