May 15th – FAIR in Education webinar: We’ve Made Teaching Too Hard for Mere Mortals with Robert Pondiscio

Electronic Health Record Safety Act

FAIR in Medicine Model Legislation:
Electronic Health Records Safety

Currently, there is no standard way to indicate a person’s biological sex in electronic health records. Some US healthcare systems allow patients to register as the gender they identify with, rather than their biological sex, potentially resulting in medical errors. We propose legislation that requires healthcare providers to record both biological sex alongside other important information about gender identity, to decrease risk to patients.

Read our proposed legislation below.

EHRSA-model-legislation

Media

Not Cutting It: Bad Policies are Leaving the Next Generation of Surgeons Unprepared

What is going on in surgery? Why are young surgeons are coming out of residency programs unprepared for clinical practice? A 2013 Annals of Surgery report revealed that 40 percent of surgical residents lacked confidence to practice independently after five years of training, the typical length of a full general-surgery residency.

Trans man about to have sex change operation found to be five-months pregnant

An Italian who was transitioning to become a man was found to be five-months pregnant after undergoing a mastectomy.

The Power and Limits of Classification — A 32-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain

A 32-year-old transgender man, presenting with severe lower abdominal pain and hypertension, is classified as a man who hasn’t taken his blood-pressure medications. When examined several hours later, he’s found to be pregnant, but no fetal heartbeat can be detected.

The New England Journal of Medicine