Top surgery is being included in a leading textbook for the first time. It closes an “educational hole” in trans healthcare, says surgeon.
  • StringTheory@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Good.

    I worked in a fairly large clinic (office assistant type stuff) and always wondered why the top-surgery patients looked so much “better” than the mastectomy patients. Finally I asked one of the doctors, and he explained that top surgery is quite different than a mastectomy, with different protocols and goals and results.

    Someone with training and experience performing mastectomies can’t just step in and do a top surgery.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      They shouldn’t, but I have heard way too many horror stories about trans men who have been misled and ripped off by unethical surgeons who just perform a mastectomy as they would with a cancer patient and have no care at all for doing the aesthetic work for chest masculinization.