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lindysalsagal

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2. Agreed. Docs send you to specialists for your own good. "Do no harm" requires they be honest about t
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 09:06 PM
Sep 2015

the limitations of their expertise. If they mess up, we'll sue them. Their insurance requires them to limit their practices to where they feel their training is adequate to the task.

Let's face it: Transgender medicine is almost unknown. Can you name one med school or hospital or internship that specializes in it? If you can, it's one of a very few, so most people who need one will only find one nearby if they're in large cities.

Doctors are not god, as much as we'd like them to be.

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