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In a hospital, nobody is wandering around looking for the "pregnant lady." That's not how healthcare works. They enter your room/cubicle/whatever and verify who you are based on your bracelet and your verbal self-identification (your last name and birthdate). If a trans man comes in and is pregnant, trust me, the relevant staff is aware of the situation.
Right.
There have been circumstances in the past where talking about TG as a "TG" has caused lawsuits. So describing patients? May be a no - no depending on how litigious the TG is. So how do you explain to other staff that the MAN over there? Needs OBGYN care and make sure you say HIM not HER. He is pregnant? Biologically impossible.
Not sure how you do not find that factually incorrect, but OK. /shrug/
Did you not miss the part where I said this is extremely confusing and results in a lot of issues with timely care for patients?
How is it confusing? If someone says they're transgendered and stopped taking T, believe them and treat them accordingly. If someone suspects they're pregnant, believe them and treat them accordingly. If someone says they're having abdominal pains believe them and treat them accordingly.
If someone says they're transgendered, suspects they're pregnant, and is having abdominal pains -- that's right! Believe them and treat them accordingly. What's confusing about that?
Only medical staff with their heads up their rears wouldn't know what to do.
According to article which is a paraphrase of another article, the EMR had the patient listed as male. That in itself is a huge problem. Huge. And if anyone thinks that does not impact care, think again.
The article also does not claim that care given was wrong or inappropriate.
It also does not state that any healthcare provider at the hospital was in any way disrespectful to the patient.
It's a Monday morning quarterback hack job on an unfortunate situation that is using emotion to act as though there are discriminatory practices when TGs get healthcare.
It's making the situation political, rather than healthcare related.
They knew that he still had female reproductive organs and that he was pregnant. It sounds more like general ineptness of the staff, to be honest.
Perhaps you are correct but If I saw a transgendered man, reproductive organs intact or not, I would assume that he/she was not having heterosexual sex with other men. If for no other reason than who would want to have sex with him.
Perhaps you are correct but If I saw a transgendered man, reproductive organs intact or not, I would assume that he/she was not having heterosexual sex with other men. If for no other reason than who would want to have sex with him.
The depths of this insanity may never be plumbed.
Why would the hospital staff be worried about anyones sex life or who they are having sex with? They are not there to make moral judgments, or assume anything, they are there to care for sick and injured people. The patient in this case informed them of the fact that he was trans and that he had a positive pregnancy test.
There have been circumstances in the past where talking about TG as a "TG" has caused lawsuits. So describing patients? May be a no - no depending on how litigious the TG is. So how do you explain to other staff that the MAN over there? Needs OBGYN care and make sure you say HIM not HER. He is pregnant? Biologically impossible.
Not sure how you do not find that factually incorrect, but OK. /shrug/
I'm assuming you've never worked in healthcare? Nobody can (legally) describe patients within the earshot of other patients and random bystanders. Does it happen? Of course it does. But it's not supposed to.
When doctors and nurses and other medical staff consult among each other, though, they can and do explain the story to one another. So yes, absolutely an ER nurse would say to the ER doctor, "that is a transgender male who is pregnant."
But all told, it doesn't even matter, because the nurse KNEW he was pregnant. Then the nurse decided that in his or her professional opinion, the patient did not need emergency care at that time. It makes no differnece whether the patient went by Bob or Barbara or Fred or Beelzebub. It was not a secret that the patient was pregnant. The issue is that the nurse made a bad call and then the situation ended with a stillborn baby.
I'm assuming you've never worked in healthcare? Nobody can (legally) describe patients within the earshot of other patients and random bystanders. Does it happen? Of course it does. But it's not supposed to.
When doctors and nurses and other medical staff consult among each other, though, they can and do explain the story to one another. So yes, absolutely an ER nurse would say to the ER doctor, "that is a transgender male who is pregnant."
But all told, it doesn't even matter, because the nurse KNEW he was pregnant. Then the nurse decided that in his or her professional opinion, the patient did not need emergency care at that time. It makes no differnece whether the patient went by Bob or Barbara or Fred or Beelzebub. It was not a secret that the patient was pregnant. The issue is that the nurse made a bad call and then the situation ended with a stillborn baby.
Then why is the focus of the story that a TG received bad care because the patient was TG?
If society is mad, don't blame individual citizens for going along with it. I just listened to a story where a man crashed his car and ran off to leave his wife to die in the wreck. All because he was driving on a suspended license.
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