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"Transgender Medicine: Advances but Gaps Remain Kristen Monaco" - Kristen Monaco

  • MedPage Today
  • New York, NY
  • (January 03, 2019)

This past July, the Endocrine Society hosted a congressional briefing in which experts in the field tried to bring some of the knowledge gaps in transgender medicine to light. “It’s not all about the genitalia,” said Joshua Safer, MD, executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai. Knowledge gaps in medical care for transgender persons are still prevalent, however, with another study, released in November, reporting that a third of family medicine physicians didn’t feel they were capable of providing care to transgender patients.

— Joshua Safer, MD, Executive Director of The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai, Senior Faculty, Endocrinology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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