Ros McDougall

A Waitlist Intervention for Transgender Young People and Psychosocial Outcomes

Sarah Dahlgren Allen, Michelle A Tollit, Rosalind McDougall, Donna Eade, Monsurul Hoq, Ken C Pang

Journal article  |  2021  |  PEDIATRICS

BACKGROUND: Recent referrals of transgender young people to specialist gender services worldwide have risen exponentially, resulti..

Should clinicians make chest surgery available to transgender male adolescents?

Rosalind McDougall, Lauren Notini, Clare Delany, Michelle Telfer, Ken C Pang

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOETHICS

Bioethicists are increasingly engaged in considering the ethical issues associated with the care of transgender people. One such i..

Supporting cancer care clinicians to 'hold' their patients during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a role for reflective ethics discussions

Clare Delany, Joanne Benhamu, Rosalind McDougall, Danielle Ko, Hayley Jones, Linda Mileshkin, Geraldine Largey, Alex Clinch, Sarah Heynemann

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an overwhelming burden on healthcare delivery globally. This paper examines how COVID-19 has affe..

Support for and willingness to be involved in voluntary assisted dying: A multisite, cross-sectional survey study of clinicians in Victoria, Australia.

Marcus Sellars, Mark Tacey, Rosalind McDougall, Barbara Hayes, Bridget Pratt, Courtney Hempton, Karen Detering, Rosemary Aldrich, Melanie Benson, Jeffrey Kirwan, Michelle Gold, Lisa O'Driscoll, Danielle Ko

Journal article  |  2021  |  Intern Med J

CONTEXT: In the Australian state of Victoria, specialist doctors are central to the operation of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD). H..

Junior doctors and conscientious objection to voluntary assisted dying: ethical complexity in practice.

Rosalind J McDougall, Ben P White, Danielle Ko, Louise Keogh, Lindy Willmott

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Med Ethics

In jurisdictions where voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is legal, eligibility assessments, prescription and administration of a VAD ..

"No One Stays Just on Blockers Forever": Clinicians' Divergent Views and Practices Regarding Puberty Suppression for Nonbinary Young People.

Lauren Notini, Ken C Pang, Michelle Telfer, Rosalind McDougall

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Adolesc Health

PURPOSE: Approximately half of transgender or gender diverse youth identify as gender nonbinary (not entirely or exclusively male ..

Effective fertility counselling for transgender adolescents: a qualitative study of clinician attitudes and practices.

Timothy Chwan Lai, Cristyn Davies, Kerry Robinson, Debi Feldman, Charlotte Victoria Elder, Charlie Cooper, Ken C Pang, Rosalind McDougall

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Open

OBJECTIVE: Fertility counselling for trans and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents has many complexities, but there is currently litt..

Introducing Voluntary Assisted Dying: Staff Perspectives in an Acute Hospital.

Robin Digby, Rosalind McDougall, Michelle Gold, Danielle Ko, Lisa O'Driscoll, Tracey Bucknall

Journal article  |  2020  |  Int J Health Policy Manag

BACKGROUND: Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) was legalised in Victoria, Australia in June 2019. Physicians can now assist patients t..

Identity, well-being and autonomy in ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults: a response to the commentaries

Lauren Notini, Brian D Earp, Lynn Gillam, Julian Savulescu, Michelle Telfer, Ken C Pang

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

In this article, we analyse the novel case of Phoenix, a non-binary adult requesting ongoing puberty suppression (OPS) to permanen..

Balancing health worker well-being and duty to care: an ethical approach to staff safety in COVID-19 and beyond.

Rosalind J McDougall, Lynn Gillam, Danielle Ko, Isabella Holmes, Clare Delany

Journal article  |  2020  |  J Med Ethics

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the risks that can be involved in healthcare work. In this paper, we explore the issue of st..