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‘Inclusive Healthcare’: Man Has Two Healthy Fingers Amputated For ‘Body Integrity Dysphoria’
Daily Wire ^ | Apr 9, 2024 | Mairead Elordi

Posted on 04/10/2024 7:53:35 AM PDT by Red Badger

The man had considered removing the two fingers himself.

A Canadian man had two healthy fingers amputated to treat his “body integrity dysphoria,” a case report about his procedure reveals.

The 20-year-old ambidextrous man experienced “profound distress” over his left hand’s fourth and fifth fingers and decided to have them amputated, according to the case report, which was published March 27 in Clinical Case Reports, an open access medical journal.

Body integrity dysphoria is the rare phenomenon of individuals wanting to amputate parts of their body, usually limbs, often because they feel the body part does not belong to them.

The young man opted for amputation after non-invasive treatments “proved unsuccessful,” the report says.

“Despite ethical concerns and limited literature on [body integrity dysphoria], the decision to proceed with elective surgery was based on the patient’s sustained desire, potential risks of self-harm, and the distinct presentation involving two fingers rather than a complete limb,” Dr. Nadia Nadeau of the department of psychiatry at Université Laval in Quebec wrote in the case report.

The man described having intrusive thoughts about his left hand’s fourth and fifth fingers since childhood and felt they should not belong to his body. He described often hiding his fingers, causing pain, and said he had not told his family about his distress due to embarrassment.

The man also said he suffered from nightmares in which his fingers were burning or rotting. He considered removing the two fingers himself.

“He had contemplated asking a friend to watch over him and be prepared to call emergency services in case his attempt led to a need for resuscitation,” Dr. Nadeau wrote in the case report. “Working in a sawmill, he considered building a small guillotine to cut his fingers. … He couldn’t imagine himself living for the years to come with those fingers.”

After his fingers were amputated, the man experienced “immediate relief,” according to the report.

The case report claims the man’s experience highlights the “potential efficacy and patient satisfaction” of elective amputation for people with body integrity dysphoria, as well as the importance of “inclusive healthcare practices.”

“Functionality was not meaningfully affected,” the doctor wrote. “In fact, he reported that without the two fingers he was able to use his hand as he had it mapped in his mind without having the fingers bothering him.”

“He won arm-wrestling games, was able to drive his four wheels, kept working with his hands without any problem,” the report reads. “He had constructive life plans, reduced anger, and improved well-being with family and at work.”

The man “feared judgment in romantic relationships” after the amputation, but reported he was now able to enjoy a “normal life.”

Body integrity dysphoria has been compared to gender dysphoria — amputation treatment for body integrity dysphoria is compared to the surgeries trans-identifying people get to try to align their bodies with their gender identities. Those surgeries can be phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, double mastectomy, and sometimes facial feminization surgery.

Critics of gender ideology have slammed doctors amputating the healthy breasts of minor girls who want to masculinize their appearance.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bodilymutilation; genderdysphoria; irrationality; perversity; selfdestruction; transitioning; wantonwokeism
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To: null and void

He hasn’t posted since 2012......................


21 posted on 04/10/2024 8:35:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN
The real story is why a licensed physician would remove perfectly healthy appendages?

It's just a my$tery.

22 posted on 04/10/2024 8:37:54 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Red Badger
I know, attempting to lure him back...


23 posted on 04/10/2024 8:47:45 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: Red Badger

Bookmark under more insanity.


24 posted on 04/10/2024 8:50:03 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: null and void

He may be FReeping on a different plane now..................


25 posted on 04/10/2024 8:55:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That would be sad.


26 posted on 04/10/2024 9:01:49 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: null and void

Didn’t see his name on the Memorial Wall.............

https://freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm


27 posted on 04/10/2024 9:09:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“First do no harm” has been replaced by “Whatever; here’s the bill.”


28 posted on 04/10/2024 10:02:33 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess, he is now on disability and retired.


29 posted on 04/10/2024 10:21:51 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: gov_bean_ counter
The rise in mental illness can be attributed to the modern transportation, the closing of asylums, social programs, and the social media.

We're two generations past the point of where the mentally ill would have been more isolated, institutionalized, not given freebies to spend their days idly, and falling in with other mentally ill individuals and breeding.

Since the expansion of the internet and social media, add the ability to meet other mentally ill online as well.

30 posted on 04/10/2024 10:56:21 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BipolarBob
And here I blamed it on...Viet Nam flashbacks, PTSD, drugs, alcohol, advanced syphilis attacking my brain...

Though she was a super-hottie back in the day common sense should have told you not to date Jane Fonda. Now you know why she kept saying "Feel the burn!" in her exercise videos.

wink

31 posted on 04/10/2024 11:38:38 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've eluded the snares of aquired wisdom.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Phil Keaggy...famous guitarist lost half his right middle finger on his right hand as a child.


32 posted on 04/10/2024 11:44:10 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging thmige world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: MikelTackNailer

We all knew her as MaryAnnRottencrotch.


33 posted on 04/10/2024 11:54:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Will there be sugar after The Rebellion?)
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