Ask Matt: What Should I Disclose to a Doc?
August 23, 2012 by Matt Kailey
http://tranifesto.com/2012/08/23/ask-matt-what-should-i-disclose-to-a-doc/"Apart from issues to do with having to tell the story five times, and not really being listened to, and privacy issues you would not believe, the hospital's crowning glory came at that moment when a junior doctor asked me, after surveying my patient information and while standing beside me in a busy corridor, 'So ... do you have a penis?' Of course it was a totally reasonable question in the circumstances, given the different levels of risk to this condition, but there is a time and place for everything.
"At the end of my session there, I went up to her to say this was an inappropriate question to ask in that particular space (I added, 'So would you ask him or him?', pointing at what I hope were cis guys). She said she probably would. Oh, yeah?
"So my question is, when colleagues go to health providers, do they always provide full info on surgeries they had and so on? In a hospital environment where I might expect treatment, I do, and to my primary care provider, I have. But I feel that ophthalmologists, dentists, podiatrists and such like don't need to know this. I always declare the testosterone, though. What do other people do?"
