re: Largest plastic surgeon’s org. (now the AMA) changes stance on youth gender-affirming care

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1) They will deny they ever "really" recommended sterilizing surgeries on minors and that it was always up to doctor judgment.
2) As docs are hit with millions in judgments for surgeries *and* puberty blockers, they will officially drop their sex-rejecting hormones recommendation too.
3) When pressed on 2 they will answer ala 1.
4) Only when most of the culprits are retired or dead will the medical associations admit that it was an unscientific, immoral, heinous, harm inflicted on children.
5) They will repeat the entire cycle again on some other medical fad while saying "shut up and trust us, we're the experts, we're the science."

In a strict sense you’re correct.

I was speaking in a general way to try to avoid having to list all of the different entities involved in legal, medical and other professional credentialing processes.

All or at least many of them went down a path of politicization over the past two decades and need to be unwound from the non competency related criteria they’ve incorporated into their processes.

And the AMA itself does play a role in credentialing in that the collect data on physicians and provide guidelines and standards which are often incorporated into state processes and educational training or at least that was my understanding although I’m by no means an expert on that process specifically.

What I see is DEI forcing admissions practices in college for doctors and other professionals because the AAMC and others are helping to push for it. Hopefully that’s starting to change.

I see politics and lobbying influencing provider practices from the top down as the FDA (which itself was politicized) drives guidelines and reimbursement at least based on the feedback I’ve gotten from friend in that field.

Then you have equity groups buying out practices and implementing guidelines for care based on the agendas of their boards which themselves are or were heavily politicized.

But I’m interested to hear your perspective if you think those concerns are overblown based on your experiences.

I know multiple practitioners who were forced from larger practices or who had to leave hospital groups to practice as they saw fit during and just after Covid which drives my perspective and have huge concerns about the data around who is being accepted to schools in various areas nationally.

I wouldn’t be accepted to my top 10 graduate school today and I’m not sure my children will have a chance either purely due to race and/or sex unless something changes.

Seems like things change once there is a $2,000,000 judgment handed down to one of their victims

All of the doctors', that did this shite, malpractice insurance just got cancelled. That's what happened.