Trans patient records medical team during cancer surgery

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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html?smtyp=cur&utm_social_post_id=611783878&utm_social_handle_id=5281959998&smid=fb-nytimes

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Has this been shared? These pieces always reveal so much.

I imagine it's pretty difficult for a surgeon to not notice a cock and balls when he's got an instrument up their arse. 🤷‍♀️

It’s strange the bag ended up in the theatre

Exactly like the mentions of prostate cancer in the article.

I don’t understand how they were able to take a phone into theatre and not just because when I had a procedure done on an eyelid a few years ago I was told to take my pants off in case I went on fire during the surgery that was done by local anaesthetic. I still laugh about it.

"I can't complain".....except I can, and that's exactly what I am doing with this lawsuit

I'm surprised his bag was in the theatre. Wouldn't it potentially be a source of infection. Also he'd be catheterised, possibly post GA but before surgery. I'm no medic but I suspect men and women have different catheters.

Apparently high oestrogen levels in men can cause prostate cancer and cancer of the male breast. It is a very disturbed individual that wants to conceal something so fundamental to their medical safety as their sex.

Seems strange that a persons belongings bag would be taken into a sterile operating dept . I'v never seen that in 30 yrs as nurse. I really find it difficult to believe this pt recorded in theatre.
It would be obvious and relevant that this pt was male and that the medical team discussed that ,surely?

Trans women’s pants cannot catch fire as they already caught fire and burned to a crisp years back.

I've got nothing. Seriously.

I cannot believe this was an article in the NYT. It's incredulous.

The guy is clearly demented. And yet it's written sympathetically.

😂

i have long said that if someone has a transgender identity, their medical (and other records) should show sex and then if necessary their "gender".

That way they can always receive appropriate medical care, and for things like where council tax is spent parts of the budget can be allocated to things transgender people need. And we can get all the accurate crime stats about crimes against them and what type. Good, accurate stats.

Well we know they're disturbed already..

I’m probably giving the NYT too much credit but I did wonder if they were giving him enough rope to hang himself here.

The year before, during an endoscope exam of her rectum and colon, the colorectal surgeon kept referring to Ms. Capasso as “he” when mentioning her to other medical workers,

I wonder why 🤔 Nope, not got the foggiest.

Medical journals and research articles have emphasized that doctors should be fully aware of the anatomy of their transgender patients — as well as the sex they were assigned at birth — in order to screen for diseases such as cancer and to properly interpret lab results.
So why are hospitals and GPs going against this advice? Don't they normally follow it for other things?

I sincerely doubt it. Unfortunately.

Patients are allowed to take bags of unsterilised posessions into theatre to have open lung surgery?
What a filthy notion.

He put the phone, recording, in his bag in the hope that the staff would take the bag into the operating theatre, which they did. I'm a little surprised that the staff were so polite about the trans stuff during the operation. I'd have said that it was close to exemplary.

Its not usual to take your belongings into theatre - infection risk and all that. Can't see why the hospital would allow a minging germ ridden phone, of all things! Weird.

I wasn't even allowed my teddy bear - he got left in the anaesthetic room and put on the trolley with me en route to recovery, apparently.

I missed this part.

There is no way that someone shoving an endoscope up your arse would miss the fact that you've got a nutsack.

The fact that this individual is so deluded that he was shocked that his perineum didnt 'pass' is just...astounding.

Plus women and men require different doses for anaesthesia. I'm surprised they managed to knock him out giving him a woman's dose (maybe it's calculated on weight?)

I've been to theatre numerous times and never once have I taken a bag of stuff in with me. Not allowed. Belongings stay on the ward. Most odd.

Maybe belongings are put into a sterile bag, and are then ok?

I think routine recording of surgery is not a bad idea. I think it’s wiser not to say things over an unconscious person that you wouldn’t say if they were awake. Certainly when I’ve visited very ill people who appeared unconscious, I have not discussed them in terms I’d not use to their face. Unlike my great aunts who were planning my grandad’s funeral, while he was alive in the bed in front of them.

However every other element of that story was madness. Want good cancer treatment? Give the medics the information they needed- including what anatomy you expect them to operate on. I mean, it isn’t the same, basically.

@AstonScrapingsNameChange
I had surgery last year and was asked my weight by the anaesthetist.

Surgeons can say whatever the fuck they want about me during the process of saving my life if it helps them get through their day

They don’t take the bag with your belongings, shoes, phone etc into the sterile theatre with you

they take it down to the recovery ward