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To: fr_freak

I think you’re being a bit hasty in your judgments. Here’s my take on the situation.

Dr. Bershel is my physician. When I call to get an appointment and she's booked solid for weeks, she finds a way to squeeze me in, even if she has to stay beyond normal business hours.

When I ask her to call regarding some medical issue, she calls back the same day, and offers intelligent advice over the phone. I don’t get a call from a nurse who screens access to the doctor.

When I visit the office, she calls back a few days later to check on how I'm doing.

She finds ways to keep the costs associated with my healthcare low, while providing an incredibly high quality of care.

She's always polite when I have an office visit, and is always interested in my health, my life and my attitude.

She talks to me as an equal, and never cops an attitude when I question what she tells me. Instead, she works to educate and convince me to go along with her suggestions.

She graduated from a top-notch medical school, and knows about the latest research or newspaper articles before I do.

I don’t know what might prompt these kind of ignorant remarks. I honestly expected better. I personally don’t have such issues. I don't care about her gender issues, and I don’t care about how she dresses. I do care about her intelligence, her compassion, and her dedication to her job. She’s the best physician with whom I’ve ever dealt.


19 posted on 11/07/2006 2:28:27 AM PST by janedoe11 (Perhaps you're being hasty.)
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To: janedoe11
Well, hey, you're bringing up an old discussion, aren't you.

If you are all content and happy with your transsexual doctor, then by all means, continue to see him/her/it. She/he/it may be a very well-educated, intelligent doctor. However, I am forced to question the judgement of anyone who decided that the way to solve their gender confusion issues was by having their own body mutilated and parts amputated. Regardless of how much he thinks he wants to be a woman, he will never BE a woman, regardless of what is cut off. He will simply be a man who is pretending to be a woman. As wonderful a human being as he may be in all other respects, he has demonstrated a significant mental disorder in this regard, and it is difficult for me to believe that such a drastic disorder will have no manifestations in his judgement in medical treatment.

These statements are not ignorant. On the contrary, the true ignorance is acceptance of such drastic self-mutilation as a normal, healthy action. The concept of tolerance has gone too far in this PC world, where people are no longer allowed to say that crazy is crazy.
20 posted on 11/07/2006 9:16:08 AM PST by fr_freak
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