Doctor's jobs are not performing unnecessary surgeries or genital mutilations. And doctors have the ethics education to know what they are doing is wrong.
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How do you weigh death against balanitis? Against a UTI? What's the exchange rate? Is one death worth it for a dozen UTI preventions? A hundred? A thousand? How many people does it take, admiral?!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ibEJoNyDDgw …
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I mean, since chronic infections can really permanently damage infants I would say it’s necessary in those cases. Since it would be doing harm not to treat them.
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Do we at least agree infant circumcision for no medical reason is wrong? Sometimes when something has gone horribly wrong the benefit of an amputation outweighs the damage, but to say the "benefit outweighs risk" on a normal healthy child is both false and missing the point...
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Yes, you’ll find from all of my replies that I agree with you, undertaking any surgery for no medical reason is just plain dumb. I don’t agree with total circumcision bans, but I would be fine with (was it Finland’s?) ban on non-medical circumcision.
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Iceland recently proposed a nonmedical infant circumcision ban. No country has yet passed into law a ban on nontherapeutic circumcisions. The problem is if such a ban were enacted in America, phimosis might be used as a "medical" excuse when ~all boys are born with phimosis.
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