FAIR in Medicine is a network of healthcare professionals within
@fairforall_org
advancing fairness, understanding and promoting
#prohuman
medicine and science.
Informed consent is a central component of developing trust in a doctor-patient relationship. Skepticism about the safety of childhood vaccinations has grown in recent years.
Join the discussion!
Join
@FAIRinMedicine
for a live discussion, as a part of our series on informed consent, about the risks and benefits of HPV vaccines with epidemiologist
@KrugAlli
, physician Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD, and FAIR’s
@notaproviderMD
!
📍 Tuesday, August 20th, 6pm ET.
Good news for CA doctors who want excellence in care.
#FreeSpeech
isn't misinformation! Debate is critical for excellence in healthcare.
#medtwitter
@DrJBhattacharya
@VPrasadMDMPH
District Judge Blocks California’s COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law
Rigorous and open debate about the risks and benefits of any treatment—including gender affirming care—must not be suppressed.
Read FAIR in Medicine's Letter:
Brave Katie Lennon can't find care now that she is in gender recovery. Gynecologists said they don't know how to treat her issues & she still can't get some records changed back to FEMALE. Ideology ignores human harms.
@genspect
@heterodorx
@Aaron_GDAC
@ethical_care
#MedTwitter
“I thought that in the end I could become a man but all I became was a mutilated and abused version of myself”
Detransitioner Katie Lennon who transitioned at 18, including hormones, a double mastectomy, and a full hysterectomy at 21 years old, testifies in Concord, NH in favor
Thanks to
@stellaomalley3
@genspect
and the great people of Ireland for providing a thoughtful conference on best practices for gender dysphoria, how to help the survivors of unethical gender medicine, and for the gift of in-person connections to diffuse intolerance and fear.
#tweetiatricans
!
Please review my resolution,
#37
. You can’t comment, because I couldn’t find a member of leadership to sponsor it, but you can read it.
I have 23 FAAP coauthors, so it’s 23 and me this year! I will keep trying.
@AbigailShrier
@ChoooCole
Inappropriate polypharmacy for all patients, but especially pediatrics.
@ChoooCole
has also shared that the testosterone made her feel worse, and instead of prescribers stopping the med, they layered on more psychotropics. Zombie check-box healthcare.
Don't miss our September 19th webinar with Dr. Erica Anderson and detransitioner Grace Lidinsky-Smith, recently on
@MegynKellyShow
. We hope
@AmerAcadPeds
will want to listen in! Sign-up here: .
In case you missed this excellent article by Stella O'Malley
@genspect
about
@AmerAcadPeds
ignoring debate and facts about what is humane care for youth struggling with gender dysphoria.
I am just shocked that this is not a bigger story.
@DrMJoyner
is an expert on exercise and performance in sports. He made comments in
@nytimes
about fairness when trans-athletes compete in women's sports and Mayo Clinic punishes him.
INSANE!
Healthcare needs nurses at the bedside like Laura Morgan-experienced, moral courage, standing up to divisive political ideologies harming patients and clinicians. Thx
@donoharm
“Implicit Bias” Training Cost Me My Nursing Job by Laura L. Morgan via
@WSJ
Lucky to have brave
@OfficialAbelG
sharing his story to Spanish speaking pediatricians
@AmerAcadPeds
shocked by what happened to him. Asking how did this happen? How can we prevent harm? The demand to talk and take our resources is off the charts!
#aap2023
.
I’d like to address why I haven’t been as active as I used to be.
As some of you know, I stopped taking testosterone about 6 months ago because I was experiencing health issues such as heart palpitations, body spasms, vomiting, cystic acne & lethargy.
"We need
#ProHuman
medicine that benefits all patients...We must be allowed to question and challenge prevailing opinion...We must never let unquestionable illiberal orthodoxies prevent the saving of lives and the healing of illness."
- Dr. Carrie Mendoza
#FAIRinMedicine
UC Irvine is hiring a professor of genitourinary cancer. One requirement for applying is an "Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement."
Per UCI's search policies, the statement will be a factor in determining the shortlist and finalists. Again, for a cancer researcher.
Silencing honest talk is becoming costly.
Reparations coming to victims of radical gender medicine?
@genspect
@ChoooCole
@heterodorx
@jordanbpeterson
Woman who lost job after tweeting view on biological sex awarded £100,000
Many of my fellow lefties don't understand the science of "gender-affirming care." That's because the media they consume has repeated activist claims as science, and has presented the issue as right v left, not science versus belief.
Clinicians have to write a diagnosis and document medical necessity in order to bill. What did the clinician write in the chart? The issue is clinicians who are either poorly trained and/or ideological who are making the wrong diagnoses and harming patients.
#MedTwitter
I see a narrative building that Beth Bourne, the mom who claimed to be "nonbinary" to see how easy it would be to obtain cross-sex hormones and surgeries, committed "insurance fraud."
But keep in mind that Beth did not claim to be suicidal, or really suffering at all in any
The NHS has ended "gender-affirming care" in England for <18s, according to the newly-released draft guidance. Psychotherapy will be the first & usually only line of treatment. Puberty blockers will be confined to research settings.
SEGM's analysis below:
Don't miss our next webinar on 10/13 in our series to understand gender dysphoria, evidence based research, and nuance from therapists. What is
#ROGD
?
@LisaLittman1
shares her research, plus therapists
@stellaomalley3
@genspect
, and Teva Johnstone.
International consensus moving away from medicalization of gender dysphoric youth. The U.S. needs to regain our place in ethics driven healthcare, not ideologic or consumer driven care. Read
@segm_ebm
analysis.
Yesterday, the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare published new treatment guidelines for youth with gender dysphoria. The guidelines explicitly instruct medical providers that psychosocial support should be the first line of treatment. /1
@KatieLennon21
@ChoooCole
Enjoyed our time together in New Hampshire. Looking forward to stopping inhumane healthcare and helping those who have suffered at the hands of ideologic medicine.
Blinded by ideology, ignoring patient harm, and bullying. Josef Mengele would be impressed.
Thanks
@TheFP
for this story.
@genspect
@pittparents
@heterodorx
#MedTwitter
‘I Felt Bullied’: Mother of Child Treated at Transgender Center Speaks Out
Dr. McNamara, who testified in FL, opines about recent legal efforts. Discussing harms isn't "denialism", it's the standard of care.
@wesyang
@LeorSapir
@genspect
@pittparents
Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science Denialism in Policy | NEJM
Check out the analysis from
@LeorSapir
of the FL Medical Board testimony by
@LGBTDoc
. The US clinicians should welcome critical appraisal of their assumptions in service of ethical care. Changing coarse to prevent harm is the physician's duty.
#moralcourage
In his testimony in favor of "gender affirming care" before the Florida board of medicine, Dr. Aron Janssen (
@LGBTDoc
) was asked why Europe has taken a more "conservative" approach than we have.
A quick fact check thread:
"Though censorship is often spoken of as the leading threat to open discourse, the more subtle threat is the voluntary limitation of one's own speech, creating a spiral of silence."
NEW VIDEO
@GlennLoury
Great news for safe, ethical, and responsible medicine from the NHS. Why is the U.S. lagging behind and ignoring safety concerns? Unfortunately similar to the opioid crisis and
@AMA
pushing "pain control" in the face of iatrogenic addicts and overdoses.
@AmerAcadPeds
@genspect
According to the NHS England's final interim specifications for treating gender dysphoric (GD) youth, published earlier today, the primary intervention for GD children & young people <18 will be psychosocial & psychological support and intervention. /1
@LeorSapir
@wesyang
@genspect
@pittparents
Incorrectly extrapolating data from a small data set to the general population, and using the prestige of legacy institutions to advance a therapy even when in-person evidence shows growing harms, is not new
@NEJM
. Read on...
@onedonebun
Brave young survivors interacting with pediatricians to drive the message home about this inhumane, ideologic tragedy. Looking forward to the 2024 conference.
@JuliaMasonMD1
Giving thanks in Nov...On Nov. 1st 1848, the Boston Female Medical School, first medical school in the world for women opened. By 1873, the college had graduated 98 women doctors, including Rebecca Lee, MD, the first black female physician.
#innovative
#MedTwitter
@fairforall_org
Read
@LeorSapir
review of US Medical Association's support of "gender-affirming care". Similar groupthink during opioid crisis when
@AMA
& regulators pushed opioids scripts, claiming no problem while ignoring clinical reality of addiction & overdoses.
The gender ideology pipeline is creating a new class of injured patients who will spend hours in ERs for chronic pain, waiting for consultants who "pass the buck", receive more prescription drugs. It's call medical purgatory.
#MedTwitter
Welcome
@JonHaidt
! The medical professionals
@FAIRinMedicine
are excited to share your wisdom with our community to improve medical education and healthcare for all!
#MedTwitter
We are thrilled to announce our newest advisory board member:
@JonHaidt
!
"If there is anyone who can explain the zeitgeist of our times, and the impact of social media on our discourse and culture, it is Jon." - FAIR Founder Bion Bartning
"The restriction of academic freedom comes in two forms: what we teach and what we research.
Let’s start with teaching. I need to emphasize that this is not hypothetical. The censorious, fearful climate is already affecting the content of what we teach."
This piece, written by doctors at
@FAIRinMedicine
, is important. In the US gender medicine is heavily influenced by insurance coverage or the lack thereof. Hence the “medically necessary” rhetoric. Detrans is excluded.
An important paper explaining the Placebo Effect. Dangerous implications for youth with gender dysphoria exposed to irreversible medicalization.
#MedTwitter
Gender-Affirming Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in Youth: A Perfect Storm Environment for the Placebo Effect—The Implications for Research and Clinical Practice | SpringerLink