151 - "These Doctors Have Forgotten the Meaning of Medicine" with Dr. Eithan Haim
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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With such a scarcity of voices from the surgical community chiming in on about their insights and reflections on gender-affirming care, Sasha and Stella eagerly welcome Dr. Eithan Haim to share his compelling perspective on his experiences and observations at a leading pediatric hospital in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Sessa. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, isn't this, wasn't that an amazing conversation we just had at A-town-home? |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, we really, we're going to keep this intro really short. |
| 0:12.0 | We just want to let Dr. Haim tell you his story. |
| 0:15.2 | He is a whistleblower from Texas who kind of uncovered that Texas Children's Hospital, |
| 0:22.0 | the biggest Children's Hospital in the world, had put out a statement saying they were shutting down their gender program and they continued to operate. |
| 0:31.0 | And the stories that he shares are quite shocking he was then for |
| 0:35.5 | whistleblowing which is a protected category he was then investigated by the |
| 0:39.0 | federal government and we get into so much about medical ethics and the progress of medicine and the basic premise underlying gender affirming care and how he kind of became aware of this whole thing in the first |
| 0:55.0 | place it was really remarkable. Yeah I loved this interview I loved talking with |
| 1:00.4 | them it was really really interesting very moving. It felt like somebody |
| 1:04.2 | knew coming into, it's almost a new arrivals of people starting to talk about gender and |
| 1:10.9 | it was really, really informative for me now really interesting. |
| 1:16.2 | So I'll read his bio and then we'll let you listen. |
| 1:19.8 | So Dr Aeton Haim is the founder of Alliance for Medical Ethics, an organization founded to promote |
| 1:25.5 | freedom of thought and truth in medicine regarding important ethical issues such as sex change procedures |
| 1:31.6 | on minors and COVID-19 policy. Dr. Heim is a general |
| 1:35.5 | surgeon practicing in Texas and recently completed his residency in general |
| 1:39.9 | surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. During this time he worked at the |
| 1:44.7 | country's most prestigious teaching hospitals including Ben Taub County Hospital |
| 1:48.9 | Texas Children's and MD Anderson Cancer Center. |
| 1:52.6 | He received multiple awards and distinctions |
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