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Part Two: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesigned Vaginas

Behind the Bastards

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Why the World of Medicine Works the Way It Does Today

In 1977, a circuit court ruled that the AMA could not restrict its members from advertising. By 1978, he claims more than 200 women had requested his love surgery with their own informed consent. The Catholic Hospital Dr. Burt performed his surgeries at St. Elizabeth started requiring him to use a special consent form specific to love surgery in 1979. Many of his patients after that period claimed they either did not sign consent forms or were not informed of what they were actually signing.

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