A doctor asked a gal that was on hormones if she was thinking about having a double mastectomy later on? The girl replied “no”. Afterwards the girl was asked “I thought you planned on having a double mastectomy later next year?”
“Well - I don't know what that is.”
“Um - it's your ‘top surgery’.”
It's just crazy that someone would want a surgery done without knowing it's name (which is a rather common name in terms of some medical procedures), and no doubt has NO idea of the complications, recovery times, and other things that come with it.
Many doctors are also not aware of all of the issues involving the removal of breasts from young women with hormonal issues. Most of the medical science relates to removal from post-menopausal women.
I guess when you are fourteen, you don’t know what a mastectomy is.
For the doctors to use that term, top surgery, with her, they just put it in terms she could understand. I don’t see that as trying to downplay what is really going on.