LogFAQs > #882358562

No? I think it's not useful to have on a form at all unless you detail every (relevant) sexual characteristic, and if you do that you might as well do it for stuff like both kidneys too.

Like it's exactly the kind of issues you bring up that already exist under the current system! That's why I say it's not very useful for individuals!

Disregarding that I'm p sure kidney status is actually checked for and known...the point is that it's not generally used for an individual's specific benefit, but for the doctors'. If someone is male you can rule certain diseases when they present a given set of symptoms, regardless of what they look like. It saves time and effort so more people can be treated over time because less time is spent on 'brute force' testing. The patient doesn't get a say there, the doctors do because they're trying to optimize the time they spend on each patient to be exactly as much as they need to heal properly and no more than that. Coming at it from the patients' viewpoint is taking the wrong perspective, I feel. It's like complaining that blood type is listed on a form. It's a medical fact that matters a bunch and not having to run tests to confirm it helps a lot.
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