Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating -… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female,… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
