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Dr. Mark Craddock Tries to Cure Gay Teen's Homosexuality with Chemical Castration
Dr. Mark Craddock, of Sydney, Australia, has been banned from practicing medicine after prescribing chemical castration to an 18-year-old man to ''cure'' his homosexuality.
Dr. Craddock is a member of the Exclusive Brethren Christian sect, as was the unidentified young man at one time.
Dr. Craddock wrote the teen a prescription for anti-androgen therapy cyproterone acetate [Cyprostat] during a consultation in February 2008, reports smh.com.au.
The drug reduces the amount of testosterone and is usually used to treat prostate cancer and severe male sexual disorders.
The teen wrote a complaint letter to the Health Care Complaints Commission, describing how he came out as gay and was told by a church leader to visit Dr. Craddock for medication.
During a hearing at the Medical Council of the Australian State of New South Wales, in June, Dr, Craddock said that he did not obtain a medical history from the teen, conduct a physical exam, record the teen's sexual history, or arrange a follow-up appointment.
The Medical Council ruled that "Dr. Craddock failed to adequately assess the patient and failed to provide appropriate medical management of the patients therapeutic needs... and was guilty of unsatisfactory processional conduct."
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Chemical castration cannot
Chemical castration cannot change sexual orientation which is determined by the hypothalamus which a Dr should know. What a quack.
Foolish Doctor, you can't
Foolish Doctor, you can't do it THAT way, ...you have to cast the demons out!
No, no, no! Demons like that
No, no, no! Demons like that leave of their own accord if the possessed starts taking drugs like that, because it takes away all the fun they had been having.
Michael Allen sexes up yet
Michael Allen sexes up yet another story. The doctor hasn't been "struck off". He didn't prescribe the medication in an attempt to "cure" the patient's sexual orientation.
The doctor failed to monitor the patient for side-effects of medication the patient requested, which wouldn't be appropriate as a "cure" for a homosexual orientation but which we aren't told (in proper news media) the committee considered inappropriate for whatever symptoms the patient complained of. The doctor also failed to refer the patient for appropriate counselling or psychological therapy.
The doctor admitted "most" of the complaints, and rightly accepted a severe reprimand, and restrictions on his future practice. Some sources suggest that this practising radiologist is no longer allowed to moonlight as a part-time general practitioner. Good job. I wouldn't want him as my GP, if this example from four years ago of his GP work is typical.
As often on Opposing Views, the truth is much less exciting than the made-up hype. Perhaps the site should start allowing hypothetical situations, that are entirely fictional, to be published. Then we could all fire at will from our usual entrenched positions, without worrying about hurting the real feelings of real people, whose real-life misdemeanours have been severely misreported, in order to seed what are increasingly the same stale old arguments, over and over and over again.
Perhaps Opposing Views should be renamed "Fixed Ideas". LGBT, hate crimes, evolution, the GOP, Obamacare, religion-bashing, brutal cops, abortion, sex crimes, and so on, ad nauseam. The inmates of Prison Planet are nowadays encouraged to write graffiti on their prison cell walls to stop them rioting, but seldom anything interesting and thought-provoking.
One would think that a doctor
One would think that a doctor should know the difference between sexuality and sexual performance.
I guess that religious nuts, even when they are supposed to be members of the scientific community (as doctors are) tend to ignore science when it conflicts with their religion.
That is one doctor that I am glad will not be practicing medicine again.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Good comment on the made-up
Good comment on the made-up propaganda story, Raptorcat, but try reading what really happened, from a news source other than Michael Allen, writing on Opposing Views, on his usual mission to stir up a hornets' nest of dissent, by writing a made-up story calculated to accomplish this, because the true story just isn't sexy enough.
The real point is that the
The real point is that the MEDICAL DOCTOR, a supposed scientist, did not seem to comprehend the difference between sexuality and sexual function.
A gay guy that can't get it up is still gay. No amount of chemical castration can ever change that. One need not be a doctor to figure that out; one just needs some common sense (an admitted super power since so few people seem to have common sense these days).
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Lol, modern journalism at its
Lol, modern journalism at its "finest."
I'm half-expecting a story
I'm half-expecting a story any day soon, about an interracial Mormon couple refused service at Chick-fil-A. A cop called to escort them from the premises, who belongs to the GOP and believes in six-day creation, beats up the black husband, who happens to be an ex-gay with nothing but praise for "reparative therapy", then rapes the white wife in a police cell, who gets pregnant, leaves it too late by a week to request a legal abortion and then moans to the whole world about the law, buys herself a gun out-of-state, and shoots the rapist cop dead, only for Westboro Baptist Church to turn up at the cop's funeral.
Already read that one.
Already read that one.