It's actually on Tommorow night (Thursday) which is dedicated to men's health. Tonight's one is on women's health and last night was about breasts where they showed the asian guy (named Abdul) with gyne and said they will be showing what happened in his case on Thursday's episode, though I must say it looks like he had puffy nips, not severe gyne. Then again I can't imagine anyone with severe gyne will want to show it on TV. My thoughts? It's good that gyne is becoming more known, so that men will seek help for it and hopefully one day it will be on the NHS for everyone and hopefully the docs will be more skilled by then. But also there will be more people aware of it that will use it as an opportunity to tease. A few months back I saw a boy getting teased on the bus by other kids for having man-boobs. The kid was too young he was just fat that's all, but the word "man-boobs" are already in children's vocabulary. People at work take the piss out of chubby/fat guys they think have man-boobs. Because I'm skinny they haven't noticed me yet, even though my gyne is a bit big.
However even though the programme is called "Embarassing Bodies" for all those patients to appear on national TV and show what part is embarassing them, they really can't be that embarassed. I mean everyone and anyone can see it and people are going to know what problems they had or how they looked naked, etc. They're quite brave, but I know I wouldn't do that, not on TV anyway.
http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesses.com/conditions/gynaecomastiaAbdul mentioned that his new doctor said the NHS will pay for it for free and questioned why he was going private. The thing I have just learn't after seeing my NHS consultant earlier is that you don't have a choice of Hospitals and surgeons on the NHS, you basically have to have it done at your local hospital with the surgeon assigned to you.
And in my case he was less experienced with gyne (does around 5 ops a year) and he said they're gonna leave a bit in and there will be scarring. I dunno but when it comes to this, I've heard that private surgeons such as Karidis can get rid of it all, make both sides look equal and leave minimal or no scarring. It's just gonna take a few months to save up 4K. It's unfair that we have to pay so much for something we have no control over, but it's a risk on the NHS, they could do either a good job or a bad job.
While NHS surgeons may need more experience with gyne, I wouldn't want to be the "practice" patient.
Topic: gynecomastia on channel 4 (Read 7251 times)
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