Mdedge Psychcast

Jack Drescher, MD, returns to the MDedge Psychcast, this time to discuss ethical issues raised by the treatment of gender-variant prepubescent children with MDedge Psychiatry editor in chief Lorenzo Norris, MD. The two spoke at the 2019 Group for Advancement in Psychiatry (GAP) meeting in White Plains, N.Y. Dr. Drescher is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past president of GAP, and a past president of the APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He has a private practice in New York. And later, in the “Dr. RK” segment, Renee Kohanski, MD, says artificial intelligence is much more powerful than we imagined. *  *  *   Help us make this podcast better! Please take this short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/podcastsurveyOct2019 *  *  *   Three approaches used to address gender-variant children Despite the acceptance of gender dysphoria as a diagnosis with standardized treatments, the treatment of gender-variant prepubescent children remains a controversial a