Author: Dorron Blumberg

I grew up by the seaside in a rural Ireland, did medical school and internship in Dublin and came to Philadelphia for surgical training. I did 5 years of surgical there followed by three years of plastic surgery training at Indiana University. It was around then I began to become passionate about gender affirmation surgery. I traveled to Europe and Australia to get training in this field and 5 years ago founded the Gender Affirmation Surgery Program at Indiana University. We built a great program there but I always knew living in a landlocked mid-western state was not for me so this year I moved my practice to Miami and have never been happier.

 

June 8 2020 – The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced the 21 members of its Board of Trustees for the coming year following elections held during the Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates. 

 

Susan R. Bailey, M.D., an allergist and immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, was sworn in as the 175th president of the AMA. Dr. Bailey’s inauguration marks the first time that three consecutive women have held the office of AMA president.
 

 

June 8, 2020 – Tenet Healthcare’s Palm Beach Health Network hospitals announced today that visitation policies have been relaxed to allow one designated support person to accompany each elective surgery, pediatric and maternity patient.  The visitation policy for elective surgery is for the entire network, which includes Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Children’s Hospital, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center.  Maternity patients at the hospitals offering these services, Good Samaritan Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center, and pediatric patients at West Boca Medical Center and the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s Medical Center, can rest assured that when choosing one of these facilities, they can bring a support person with them who meets screening criteria.