I mean, these same MDs kept on hoarding hydroxychloroquine and giving it to all the serious cases until it turned out it was actually just increasing the risk of heart attacks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
So they're just chucking whatever is in the cabinets at people and hoping it doesn't kill them faster?
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Replying to @Teknogrot @BootlegGirl
Yeah that's what happens when people get desperate The reason the Hippocratic Oath mandates risk aversion ("First do no harm") is that physicians are under tremendous pressure all the time to "DO SOMETHING" with very limited information
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot
I guess the thing that just blows me away about this, and I keep saying it, but it's doctors suddenly deciding that for medical intents and purposes they can just move patients from the male to the female column for outcomes and treatments if they just give them little a estrogen
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Which is not a thing anyone has ever claimed with respect to trans people, it's a straw man the T**Fs think trans people believe but I don't know anyone who actually would be comfortable assuming their disease risk exactly equals that of a cis woman bc they're on HRT
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Even if the doctors here were like "well, we think it'll confer half the benefits of being a cis woman," it still increasingly looks like a situation where(given that we don't know the mechanism) either it's just random, or they really should advocate giving men estradiol forever
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Like, women have the advantage in nearly every category of health and live on average a decade longer, so if we're in "estradiol can give you some of those benefits" territory - which, to be v clear, is not MY premise here - it seems unconscionable to not just make it standard
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Teknogrot
It's the whole "Estradiol is a youth serum and T is aging juice" thing Which you know is an annoying oversimplification but has some truth to it More the second half than the first
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Like that's literally how they describe the side effects of abusing steroids (which are an attempt to artificially mimic testosterone) "He ended up with a 60-year-old's heart and kidneys at the age of 40"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot
I don't know why my replies aren't showing up but I still want an answer from these people on why men are suddenly willing to risk growing breasts now when they weren't before for any other potential risk reductions allegedly caused by e
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Well I hate to call it this because it just gives the denialists on the other side ammo but it really is COVID hysteria It's the same reason people are suddenly drinking pool cleaner and bleach
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