I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

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    [–]Alienhunter糞大名 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    A good analogy. I'm going to answer yes, we do give the girl gastric bypass surgery, because we have a capitalistic medical system which is profit driven. If I as a doctor choose not to pursue such an unnecessary surgery due to some non-profit related metric. Then my patient need merely find a profit motivated doctor with no such moral hangups

    For this reason I've long argued that medicine is a realm in which the normal workings of market capitalism are not going to lead to desirable outcomes and will eventually work against the good of the patient unless there is some kind oversight and moral system in place that is not beholden to profit based motivations.

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      [–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I am unaware of any anorexic patient that was ever given gastric bypass surgery

      We all know that's only because it's not the trendy and profitable thing to do - yet. The moment it becomes trendy, you can bet that "you have to respect an anorexic person's identity", and there will be anorexic characters suddenly popping up a lot in media to attract potential customers. And anorexia will be shown as something precious and special.

      And afterwards, watch the gastric bypass surgery requests skyrocket to 2000%!!!! PROFIT!!