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Members of all communities deserve access to comprehensive and affirming mental health care.
You could say that medicine is in the family: Ruby Castilla-Puentes is the only psychiatrist among her siblings, but all four went to medical school at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. “Our professors used to ask – how many more of you are coming?!” Castilla-Puentes tells The Lancet Psychiatry. Her siblings were among many peers who questioned her choice to specialise in mental health—not considered fashionable back then—but it is a decision she has never regretted.