03-06-2003, 02:06 PM | #1 |
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Something Else to Worry About
In her Daily Telegraph (London) column of Jan. 16, Medical Editor Celia Hall reported that a family doctor in western England has been summoned to a formal hearing before his local primary-care trust because he refused to certify a male patient for a Pap smear to screen him for cervical cancer. The man sincerely believes he is a hermaphrodite, but his doctor said he can find no evidence of that (and in fact, the man once fathered a child). At least one colleague suggested appeasing the patient, which the doctor said he might do if someone would teach him the procedure for performing a cervical smear on a 34-year-old male. [Daily Telegraph, 1-16-03]
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03-06-2003, 04:14 PM | #2 |
Symbol of Cyric
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Erm...okay...anyone else wanted to know that?
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03-06-2003, 04:31 PM | #3 |
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so how goes the case? did he win? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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03-07-2003, 03:37 AM | #4 |
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what do you mean by a hermaphrodite??? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
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03-07-2003, 05:30 AM | #5 | |
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\Her*maph"ro*dite\, n. [L. hermaphroditus, Gr. ?, so called from the mythical story that Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, when bathing, became joined in one body with Salmacis, the nymph of a fountain in Caria: cf. F. hermaphrodite.] (Biol.) An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths. |
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03-08-2003, 10:59 AM | #6 |
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So does he... um...
even... well err.... .... ... ... weird....
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