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Part Two: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesigned Vaginas

Behind the Bastards

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Love Surgery Is a Real Medical Treatment

Dr. Burt fought a series of legal and PR battles to get metropolitan life insurance and blue shield to cover his love surgery as a necessary operation it was covered by insurance for a while. When they refused he filed a complaint with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission claiming that love surgery was a matter of women receiving equal medical treatment. In some of the most torturous and offensive logic in medical history Dr. Burt attempted to claim that this meant his love surgery would reduce domestic violence. Millions of dollars and thousands of vaginas were at stake over the issue.

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