Honestly I expect this kind of vote from your colleague, but I believed you saw more clearly. I’m sorry I didn’t call your office ahead of the vote, that’s on me. But could you tell me how to explain it to my child?

And for the record, this was the insurance provided to me as an *attending physician*

I’m in this fight with and for our patients to create a better system.

Regulated capitalism can do many good things, but I struggle to find it morally justifiable to profit off of the sickness of others.

I work very hard to not co-opt the struggles of people I love. What I can say that is that I can tell you that as a parent of a transgender child, I have no sympathy in the world for a single parent who is not enthusiastically supportive of their child's gender expression.

The idea that each surgical case should take a uniform amount of time is ridiculous and not supported by either the data, or the variability of human bodies and their anatomy.

As a surgeon, I have specific goals I want to achieve for each patient, and that takes as long as it takes.