Yeah, that comment is really frustrating. If you don't give some one insulin who is diabetic they will get sick and die. But you wouldn't just give insulin to someone who walked in off the street without a prescription and said 'I think I'm diabetic, give me insulin', because giving insulin to a non-diabetic will hurt them. You wouldn't …
Yeah, that comment is really frustrating. If you don't give some one insulin who is diabetic they will get sick and die. But you wouldn't just give insulin to someone who walked in off the street without a prescription and said 'I think I'm diabetic, give me insulin', because giving insulin to a non-diabetic will hurt them. You wouldn't give ritalin to someone without actually figuring out if they suffer from ADD and you wouldn't give anti-depressants to someone unless you determined they were depressed etc. and needed them.
There's this bizarre desire see hormones/surgery as life saving care and yet also somehow not a medical decision at all. I notice we don't even say 'sex-change' any more.
Yeah, that comment is really frustrating. If you don't give some one insulin who is diabetic they will get sick and die. But you wouldn't just give insulin to someone who walked in off the street without a prescription and said 'I think I'm diabetic, give me insulin', because giving insulin to a non-diabetic will hurt them. You wouldn't give ritalin to someone without actually figuring out if they suffer from ADD and you wouldn't give anti-depressants to someone unless you determined they were depressed etc. and needed them.
There's this bizarre desire see hormones/surgery as life saving care and yet also somehow not a medical decision at all. I notice we don't even say 'sex-change' any more.