Your Health is Your Business
My recent blog entries have been full of my own personal quest to staty healthy. The mid-life birthday milestone that I recently passed is a reminder that I’ve reached a stage in life where I’ll need to be more vigilant, where things we take for granted in younger years suddenly have renewed urgency. Coincidentally, this [...]
Stanford Medical Students Want To Help Gay Patients Be Comfortably ‘Out’ In Doctor’s Office (Medical News Today)
Every time he goes to a new doctor, Mitchell Lunn faces the question anew: Should he tell his doctor he’s gay? “The question always comes up,” said Lunn, 27, a medical student from North Dakota at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “Do I want to come out or not?” This hesitancy is common with [...]
Stanford Medical Students Want to Help Gay Patients Be Comfortably ‘Out’ in Doctor’s Office
Stanford medical students Mitchell Lunn, Eric Tran, William White Jr., Juno Obedin-Maliver, Elizabeth Goldsmith and Leslie Stewart. STANFORD, Calif. – Every time he goes to a new doctor, Mitchell Lunn faces the question anew: Should he tell his doctor he’s gay? “The question always comes up,” said Lunn, 27, a medical student from North Dakota [...]
Stanford Medical Students Want to Help Gay Patients Be Comfortably ‘Out’ in Doctor’s Office (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
STANFORD, Calif.—-Every time he goes to a new doctor, Mitchell Lunn faces the question anew: Should he tell his doctor he’s gay?
Stanford Medical Students Want to Help Gay Patients Be Comfortably ‘Out’ in Doctor’s Office (Centre Daily Times)
Every time he goes to a new doctor, Mitchell Lunn faces the question anew: Should he tell his doctor he’s gay?
Germany’s Transgender Community
Germany’s transgender community has an interesting and tumultuous history. In 1930 the first surgery was performed there in Berlin with Danish transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe. Tragically, Lili is also buried in Dresden after dying from complications from an additional surgery in 1931. In addition to supervising Elbe’s groundbreaking surgery, much of the research and terminology [...]
The breasts a man can get: Why ‘moobs’ are no laughing matter (Independent)
Search the newspaper archives and it’s only when you get to 2004 that the “moob” heaves forth into the bra of popular culture. The word crops up as early as 1985 but without any reference to droopy chests – “moob”, or “boom” spelt backwards, was coined to describe a sagging economy (it never caught on). [...]
Taking A Look At Sexual Identity And Gender Dysphoria
Taking A Look At Sexual Identity And Gender Dysphoria March 6th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed transgender teen The feeling that one’s physical sex does not match their gender identity results in gender dysphoria. It often appears in early childhood, as early as two years of age. Such feelings are considered to be symptoms of [...]
Reversal casts shadow of regret over gender switch (Detroit Free Press)
The day Mike Penner left the Los Angeles Times, his departure made the news. The longtime sportswriter wrote the article himself, a personal essay explaining that he was taking some time off and, upon his return, he would be known from then on as Christine Daniels.