linkA top sex change doctor left patients devastated after recommending irreversible surgery without proper checks and told them they could finance the ops by working as escorts, a medical tribunal was told today (tue).
Doctor Russell Reid, a psychiatrist at the world-famous Charing Cross Hospital Gender Identity Clinic, allegedly broke guidelines for treating would-be transsexuals by prescribing hormones and allowing them to undergo painful and permanent surgery.
The allegations relate to five patients and the case is also being brought by four fellow psychiatrists from the Central London hospital, which is the oldest and largest treatment centre of its kind in the world.