Ottawa's one-man health care sector

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/Features/2008/04/25/5385621.html
4/25/2008

"In 1978, when he got the call, Dr. Norman Barwin had consulted with
CHEO staff on several reconstructive surgeries in cases where children
had been born without genitalia.

A transgendered patient had come into the old General Hospital's emergency room.

"The person felt so badly about himself," recalls Barwin, "he'd
amputated his penis."

With a plastic surgeon standing by, and a world experience of six
cases, Barwin managed to create a neo-vagina for the man.

The experience would forever alter Barwin's medical career. He soon
tried to set up a Gender Indentity Clinic at the Royal Ottawa
Hospital, something like Toronto's Clarke Institute, which opened in
1969."