Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 21 2022 01:37pm)

If the data shows that hormone therapy then waiting until they are adults gets better results, then there's exceedingly few cases where a competent physician would recommend this course of action regardless.

If it's really a moot point then there's very little reason to talk about it. It's going to come out that way as standard practice as evidence-based decision making comes into play.

We should let those who are most equipped to interpret the evidence (physicians) consult with those in the individual circumstance (parents and children) to facilitate them making the best decision.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 21 2022 03:17pm)

Ultimately, the one to make the decision isn't us. Part of medical autonomy is giving people options and guiding them through the process to choose the one that's right to them.

There's rarely a reason to outright deny somebody a treatment unless it just won't help, or there's a treatment that's better in every way available.

Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 21 2022 04:11pm)

Ultimately the one to make the decision is the royal 'us'. We can see in this case how ethical canons are no sufficient safeguard alone, but medical ethics are still ultimately responsible to democratic society at large. Its the voters and their representatives who are charged with regulating medicine and people's rights, particularly in cases where rights are in conflict and controversies exist over whether one party's interests infringe on another's. Its not a personal choice between a 'woman' and her physician, its the life of a child that can't choose for himself.

Quote (thundercock @ Sep 21 2022 02:41pm)

IMO, it's better to mutilate children for profit than to do it for no reason at all.

Quote (Cascadian @ Sep 21 2022 03:38pm)

I've still never recovered from the mutilation i experienced as a child at the hands of "doctors"... religious wackos that deemed it needed to give newborn boys a circumcision.

Quote (thundercock @ 21 Sep 2022 15:44)

You should be glad because it increases the likelihood that you'll sleep with a woman. If you're a homosexual, then yes, I am sorry for your loss.

Quote (lodd222 @ Sep 21 2022 03:52pm)

the physicians dont interpret the evidence they provide clinical data & cases, its up to anti pfizer scientific community & forthcoming sociologists to interpret the data and hold the medical paradigm accountable for its history of ill will & board of director business brief based decision making.

no more buying off lead scientists to cherry pick results either.