Canada2017 said:
whiterock said:
Porteroso said:
Harrison Bergeron said:
90sBear said:
Porteroso said:
To think that an 8 year old, who cannot legally have sex or even look at another naked human being, could have the intellectual and/or sexual maturity to understand whether having adults cut organs off their body is a good idea or not, is beyond the pale.
It is adults forever raping the sexuality of a child. No child can consent to such a thing, so of course it is adults deciding this for their own children.
Of course this is barely happening at all, because even if you want to be politically correct, few are so braindead.
Still, it is abhorrent that the President is encouraging child exploitation in such a way. It is one thing to support your child no matter what they think of gender, gender norms, and what pronouns they like at any given hour of the day (some change pronouns based upon the moon and body chemistry....).
It is another to gather a group of adults together to hack off your child's body parts and force hormones upon their brain.
Sadly there are probably some within the medical field for whom this is a money maker decision as well.
Someone posted a video from a meeting at Vanderbilt Medical School. You're correct - the person talked about how profitable this section is for the school.
Thats disgusting, I entirely agree.
Hospitals are money pits. Enormously unprofitable. Ergo the allure of the reassignment surgery industry.
Interesting point .
50 years ago, the GP and pediatricians had their own offices. Nearly all the specialists officed in the hospitals or hospital annexes. Those days are gone.
Today, hospitals are big, bureaucratic, overhead heavy buildings where (mostly) old people on Medicare/Medicaid go to die, or Medicaid. The more profitable parts of medicine - outpatient procedures - done on people who mostly have good insurance, have mostly moved to small specialty facilities run by physician-owners, tailored not for all surgical needs but for the specific uses of the specialists who will use it. Think about it.....have a heart cath? at a surgery center owned by the cardio practice. Have a lithotrypsy? Done in a surgery center. Bladder cath? Done right in the urologist office. Need a colonoscopy? In-office procedure, even with polyp removal. Need some bone spurs shaved off? Office procedure. Need an MRI or other special imaging? Surgery center owned by radiology practice.
What drove it? Business pressures.
The old adage about dairymen applies to doctors - there is no paid vacation. Any day a dairyman doesn't touch a tit is a day he doesn't get paid. Similarly, a doctor who don't touch a patient today doesn't get paid. BUT. They can move their practice into a building they own. They can move their surgeries into a surgery center they own. And if they don't work today....well, at least they get some rent. And when they retire....they scale back the number of days they practice.....then they sell their shares in the medical practice. They can collect rent for a while on the two buildings. Then they can sell their share of the building housing the practice. Later on, they can sell their share of the building housing the surgery center. etc.... Retirement for them doesn't have to be a threshold. It's a phased withdrawal.
In other words: Specialty medicine has sucked the most profitable parts of medicine out of hospitals, leaving hospitals with (mostly) all the dreadful stuff nobody can make any money doing, in a huge building full of bureaucrats enforcing govt regulations on medicine.
One of the more obscure objectives of Obamacare was to drive specialty medicine back into the hospitals. I know a couple of younger physicians who sold their practice and went to work for the hospital in order to get seniority. Their reasoning was "don't fight city hall"....the trend was inevitable, so get there first. Hasn't exactly worked out that way, but it highlights the issue.
