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by DanBC 4y ago
I agree. Have a look at the EU Spreadsheet Risks Group, especially the horror stories. http://www.eusprig.org/ http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm They get posted to HN from time to time. https:&#x2F
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by DanBC 4y ago
No, it hasn't. We have decades of research on this. Rates of desistence are low. Rates of regret are low, and are lower than most other forms of medical care. Edit: Even the submitted article admits that on one side you have medical op
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by DanBC 4y ago
But those minors aren't making the decision. Doctors are.
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by DanBC 4y ago
> And we are giving the choice to take them to people too young to be allowed to vote, drive, or have sex. No we aren't. These are prescription only meds that are obtained after considerable, sustained, effort to engage in bio-psych
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by DanBC 4y ago
> And it’s NOT very very real to them Except it is. There's no research that show significant rates of desistence in the relevant population, which is children who want to transition. Rates of persistence are high in this population
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by DanBC 4y ago
Steve Barclay will have no hesitation in signing this off to Palintir (he does not care about privacy, and he wants private companies working with the NHS), except he's pushing for budget cuts and it's not clear that the NHS can a
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by DanBC 4y ago
Part of the NICE discussions is to apply pressure to get a lower price. I feel like this is a good thing to prevent gouging. The second version of the Cancer Drugs Fund is also useful here, because it makes available stuff that isn't i
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by DanBC 4y ago
> CAT scans are routine, etc That's a bug, not a feature. American doctors know that they order too many scans; they know it's harming their patients; but they can't stop doing it because there's a false belief that
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by DanBC 4y ago
> They were dominated (at least by the publicly-available figures here in the UK) by retired folks. You're saying here that most of the people who died were old, which is true. But you're also saying that this means that not ma
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Their chemotherapy? This surprise lots of people, but rates of regret for patients getting chemotherapy or other cancer treatment are quite high. They're much higher than rates of regret among people getting gender affirming car
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by DanBC 4y ago
> As these interventions are made widely accessible you can bet that there will be significant numbers of people that regret their decision, but in many cases the effects of medical intervention will be partially or fully irreversible. I
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by DanBC 4y ago
People forget that the UK government is defunding the English NHS, and there's a good chance this won't happen because the budget got cut. https://twitter.com/ncarding/status/1589642773011263489?s=20...
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by DanBC 4y ago
I think the point being made is that health is devolved, and this story affects NHS England, but not the other NHS systems in Wales, Scotland, or NI. This is a common problem with reporting on the NHS - journos often say "The UK NHS&qu
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by DanBC 4y ago
No, they did not. They only did psychological assessment, and then referred on to endocrinology who would then do their own assessment and decide whether or not to prescribe PBs. Here's the NHS England stand commissioning contract. On
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by DanBC 4y ago
> or that he's just plain wrong. The greatest problem many have with Singal is that he is not following a prescribed narrative. No, it really is as simple as him being plain wrong.
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by DanBC 4y ago
The unsafeness of the Tavistock clinic had nothing to do with puberty blockers - Tavi didn't prescribe[1] any puberty blockers to any child. And while the clinic provided by Tavistock is closing there will be many other clinics opening
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by DanBC 4y ago
> 6 drinks a day, every day, One glass of wine, 125 ml, at 8%, is one UK unit. Half a .75l bottle of wine at 14% would be 5.25 units. It's not unusual in the UK for people to drink half a bottle of wine each evening, and then mor
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by DanBC 4y ago
This is a fundamentally dishonest headline. The Cass Review hasn't said that it's a phrase; she's encouraging more treatment in more treatment centres.
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by DanBC 4y ago
But not in the actual Cass Review interim report. The reporting was so bad she's had to issue a clarification letter.
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by DanBC 4y ago
"Hormone specialists" are endocrinologists are are qualified, trained, registered, doctors working within their expertise, and when they prescribe meds to a small number of people they're prescribing meds that are licenced to
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by DanBC 4y ago
No, it just means if you do it you need to pay for it, and the Conservatives have in real terms cut funding and increased bureaucracy.
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by DanBC 4y ago
I think people need to understand that colorectal cancer isn't one thing. There are a range of cancers that occur in the colorectal system. Finding a cancer earlier (in terms of staging) is probably a good thing. But finding a cancer e
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by DanBC 4y ago
> because every single additional person showing up for a screening is a net win We can't say that from this study. Colonoscopy does appear to be one of the screenings that reduces mortality. (That's why this is such a surpris
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by DanBC 4y ago
> The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines Absolutely fucking mental mate.
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by DanBC 4y ago
I don't use a stream deck but I use a 4 key programmable keyboard in MS Teams meetings to turn on and off the microphone, the camera, and to put hand up and down. I don't use Teams enough for the muscle memory for the keyboard sho
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by DanBC 4y ago
There's a difference between forcible treatment, and being kept in a room wearing nothing but anti-ligature clothing, with none of your belongings, no blankets, no furniture, food being provided through a hatch in a door, etc. It'
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by DanBC 4y ago
> one could just look at other countries for examples to evaluate whether this idea would present a terrible slide into authoritarianism. For example, in the UK: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Their apparent addiction to hiring full time diversity officers on six figure salaries is a neuralgic one, not so much because of the scale of the waste (small) but because it's so obviously waste, so easy to fix and so obviously
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by DanBC 4y ago
Germany spends quite a lot more than England. Depends how you measure (per capita there's a big difference; percentage of GDP the difference is smaller). Another thing that's really affecting the English NHS at the moment is Brexi

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