Dr. Richard Bosshardt
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first heard Feb 2025
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Did not want to do that. I didn't think it was a good operation, a good idea. Long and short of that, the study showed that, yeah, she could lose weight by doing this, but the weight came back. These patients gained weight again. And so it was pretty much abandoned. We're talking back in 1984, thereabouts.
And, of course, I remember one young woman who died directly as a result of the operation, which wasn't that big a group of patients, and they had one death in that group. So, you know, you're not always allowed to make the decision about what you can do.
Now, if you're in a residency program and you've got surgeons that are doing, you know, gender-affirming surgery, again, in minors, and you don't want to participate in that, I can't speak to this. I can't say that the resident has the ability to say, no, I'm not going to do that or I won't do that. I do know that, you know, are you familiar with the case of Eitan Haim? I've interviewed him.
Oh, okay. What a man he is. One of my heroes. He is... Now, there's someone who has true courage. I mean, my courage is the courage of someone that doesn't have too much to lose. His is the courage of someone who has everything to lose.
Okay. I've spoken... I've become friends with him, and I've actually...
call these you know divine moments if you will but i've made a couple of just felt compelled to call him a couple of times and it just happened to be when he was in a really difficult down period and just needed someone to to affirm what he was doing and to encourage him and so forth and so um you know i just happened to be the person that made that phone call and um So we become friends.
Good for you. And he is definitely a religious person. Good.
And more than that, he's a moral person.
No, he's still in the thick of it. And he's still under indictment. And he's still facing trial. He's going to win. Oh, he'll win. Well, my suspicion is it's all going to be dropped. Because the reasons that have been brought to, the accusations are so out there that they just can't stand. Eitan Haim. E-T-A-N? E-I-T-H-A-N-H-A-I-M. Eitan. Eitan Haim.
It can be fixed, yes. But... You're talking about a long, you know, the pipeline for surgery is five plus years. So, you know, and then you got the four years before the medical school. So if you're going to fix the problem, you got to go back to the medical schools.
Honestly, you may have to go back to universities where people are being indoctrinated in all this social justice stuff where they feel that that's more important than what they're doing. You know, the young doctors think that righting historic wrongs is more important than taking care of the patient in front of them. And you can't practice medicine that way. That's just not medicine.
So it can be fixed. It's going to be a generational problem. It's going to take a long time. We're going to be seeing the effects of this and paying the price for these policies and these ideologies for probably my lifetime, I suspect. Which brings up the issue, you know, I'm a healthy guy, but every one of us is going to be someday needing a doctor. And I don't know who I'm going to go to.
I somewhat semi-seriously told friends and family, I said, don't go to a surgeon or a doctor under 40 because they've been indoctrinated. Some of these guys are still wearing masks, for Pete's sakes. Masks? Oh, yeah, there's some physicians that still mask, you know, patients and things like that. It's just crazy. There's crazy stuff out there, Tucker.
Well, first off, there's too few doctors. I mean, there's so few that a lot of these guys, guys, men, women, whatever, a lot of doctors are there because there's just not enough doctors. I mean, if you try to get a doctor recently and make an appointment, just a routine appointment, you're talking months down the road. You need something more urgently. Good luck with that.
You'll probably end up going to an energy care center where you'll see a nurse practitioner or PA or someone that's got a fraction of the education experience of a physician. So it's not a real... There's not a simple cure for all of this. One thing I wanted to try to do with this conversation is not just simply badmouth my organization, the ACS, or badmouth medicine and surgery.
I'm devastated by what's happened. I really want surgery to be elevated to where it should be, which is a very highly regarded profession that is dedicated itself to taking care of all comers, regardless. We don't judge on who or what you are when you're in front of us and you've got a problem that we're trained to fix. My solutions, my first solution, obviously, is get DEI out of medicine.
Politics and ideology do not belong in medicine.
The idea that you can take care of a patient if your first priority is to judge them based on their color or ethnicity is counter to everything that Hippocratic medicine is all about. The other is to reinstall standards of excellence. We have to quit lowering the bar. We got to start elevating the bar again and requiring that doctors and prospective doctors meet minimum standards.
There have to be some minimum, but they have to be higher than the lower 5% for Pete's sakes. They can't be that. We have to free the doctors in training to do what they have to do. You can't have... Restricted hours when you've got such limited time anyway. In the overall course of a person's lifetime, three, four, five years in surgery is a drop in the bucket.
I mean, to ask a surgeon to devote themselves to learning the craft and what they call the art and the science of surgery, not only do you need the time, you need the person to apply themselves.
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