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Surgeon urgues colleagues to reconsider a medical procedure for TS patients

Started by katia, December 03, 2007, 03:02:11 PM

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Surgeon Urges Colleagues to Reconsider Their Views About a Medical Procedure for Transsexual Patients


http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/535852/
12/3/2007

"O'Hanlan, former associate Director of Gynecologic Cancer Surgery at Stanford University and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Rockway Institute, believes gynecologic surgeons should learn about the procedure as part of an effort to better meet the needs of transsexual patients. "Transsexual patients face enormous barriers in life, and those continue into their medical treatment. They endure stigma and misunderstanding even when they go to their physicians for medical care,"
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