When is a patient supposed to be discharged from GIC?
When is a patient supposed to be discharged from GIC?
Do patients normally complete their surgery and then come back to the GIC for a wrap up appointment once the surgery is all done? Or do they discharge you once they've agreed to refer you for surgery? Do they treat MTFs and FTMs differently in terms of whether they get discharged before or after lower surgery?
There's a common misconception that FTMs don't have a penis. I have 3. The first one is a micro penis, the second one is inside out and the third one is not attached.
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Re: When is a patient supposed to be discharged from GIC?
Well CX to my knowledge do not discharge you until you are agreeable to that. Or you are happy with the place you are at.
Example many men do not want a phalloplasty so are happy to stop at top surgery and go off and live their lives.
If our treatment is not complete then I see no reason to discharge you. The surgeons may discharge you back to the Gender Clinic pending funds for more expensive bottom surgery being forthcoming or recovery period of time after say top surgery. As the people who do your top surgery are not necessarily the same team who do the bottom. So you may well be discharged to and fro.
Example many men do not want a phalloplasty so are happy to stop at top surgery and go off and live their lives.
If our treatment is not complete then I see no reason to discharge you. The surgeons may discharge you back to the Gender Clinic pending funds for more expensive bottom surgery being forthcoming or recovery period of time after say top surgery. As the people who do your top surgery are not necessarily the same team who do the bottom. So you may well be discharged to and fro.
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Re: When is a patient supposed to be discharged from GIC?
btw it depends on what you want...Disclaimer!!!! Please Read! http://media.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=2
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." M.Mead
Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." - J.P.Sartre.
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viewtopic.php?f=44&t=30
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." M.Mead
Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." - J.P.Sartre.
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Re: When is a patient supposed to be discharged from GIC?
I was offered a final visit to a shrink. This I declined on the grounds that I could see no point; and that the caseloads of the shrinks was already immense and I felt that I would just be wasting their time. I have to confess that I also thought I would find it hard not to give the psychiatrist an earful about what I think a two-year real life test is (unnecessary torture); and that this would also not help those coming along behind me.
I contacted the gender surgery nurse about some post op vaginal belleding, and was seen a few weeks later; and had some revision surgery under anaesthetic.
I therefore think that the point of discharge has fuzzy boundaries.
Jane x.
I contacted the gender surgery nurse about some post op vaginal belleding, and was seen a few weeks later; and had some revision surgery under anaesthetic.
I therefore think that the point of discharge has fuzzy boundaries.
Jane x.
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