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To: D. Long who wrote (762491)	5/6/2022 11:42:53 AM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Recommended By Alan Smithee lightshipsailor pheilman_ SirWalterRalegh Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793827

I posted before that I think the medical community made a decision about a decade ago about the correlation between mental illness (depression, anxiety, etc) and gender dysphoria I gave up my private practice in 2006 - and became a busy Hospitalist - and I don’t really know how this madness made its way into the “medical community”. I’m not sure to what extent such “community” exists. There are Psychiatrists (who, I suspect, may have been among the first) - and other, more or less autonomous fields and specialties. I doubt that Internists and Family docs would have been among the initiators. Pressure on docs could be a hard thing. Many years back - it was around the time when new medications and treatments against HIV were appearing all over the place - a young man came to my office - and over the next few days I had the answer - he had HIV, likely in the early phase of AIDS. I sent him to a friend of mine, an Infectious Disease doc, who had a busy HIV practice. The patient gladly agreed. A few days later I received a call from a man who introduced himself as that patient's priest. He proceeded - in a rather hostile tone - to chew me out about my ethics, about refusing to treat a patient “because he had long hair” (by which he meant the guy was Gay”) - and so on. I tried to explain that the HIV was rapidly becoming a rather specialized field, which was changing by the day - and, treating one single HIV patient, I wasn’t confident I could give him the best care possible… that he was welcome to become my patient for other medical problems… The man wouldn’t have it - and continued going over the same grievances. I’ve never heard from them again. It was the end of it. But I remember wondering - if they would report me to the State Board, or to the OPMC - it could have taken me years to leave this in the past. Docs are “intimidatable”. >>>> It is a crime that the medical community is pushing this pseudo-science and mutilating children based on a feel-good hunch<<<< Agree. It’s clearly beyond malpractice - it’s a crime. Would love to see this being treated as such.