About this episode

The episode discusses the broken American healthcare system and its impact on therapist speech with legal expert Diana Lutfi.

I’m welcoming back Diana Lutfi — independent legal expert, healthcare regulatory and bioethics consultant, and coalition builder — for a conversation about just how broken the American healthcare system has become, and how that brokenness is now colliding with the fight over therapist speech. I open with a personal on-ramp: my own recent ordeal getting diagnosed and treated for SIBO, and everything it revealed about a system that pushes drugs and procedures while ignoring underlying causes. It’s a story about having to be your own advocate — doing your own research, demanding your own testing, declining the wrong prescription, and fighting for the right one — and about everyone who doesn’t have the skills or resources to do that. From there, Diana and I widen the lens. We talk about “standards of care” as a phrase that sounds authoritative but is often anything but, from WPATH to gastroenterology. And we get into the heart of the episode: Colorado. Why is it, in my view, the worst state to be a parent — and increasingly, to be a therapist? We unpack Chiles v. Salazar, the new HB 26-1322 (Civil Actions for Conversion Therapy Survivors), and the deliberately vague “unprofessional…

People in this episode

Host: Stephanie Winn

Guest: Diana Lutfi

Topics covered

• healthcare system
• therapist speech
• patient advocacy
• standards of care
• legal implications
• Colorado legislation

Keywords

• healthcare
• therapist
• SIBO
• patient advocacy
• Colorado
• unprofessional conduct
• legal expert
• bioethics
• standards of care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WPATH, Colorado

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