I don't know that anyone has studied it formally. @intactive has compiled some information here http://www.circumstitions.com/Resent.html Here's a book of 50 case studies https://www.amazon.com/Unspeakable-Mutilations-Circumcised-Men-Speak-ebook/dp/B00L5FPF2C … #i2
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Replying to @IntactByDefault @intactive
If you want docs to advise things you have to offer proof - we’re all a bunch of geeks. It would be an interesting study.
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Replying to @DrLovlie @intactive
In addition to clinical risks and potential benefits of removing a child's foreskin, do you advise what the functions of the foreskin are? In our culture this is information many parents don't have.
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Replying to @IntactByDefault @intactive
Nope. Sadly one of the things it does do is increase the incidence of std’s. Most parents have already made this decision before they talk to me anyway.
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Replying to @DrLovlie @intactive
That's curious. CPS says unclear if HIV evidence applies in developed countries describes evidence on other STIs as "conflicting". That aside, don't such potential benefits need to be put into the context of what it lost to achieve them?
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Replying to @IntactByDefault @intactive
Sure. Do the studies, get the data. Docs work from studies consistent with scientific method, not from anecdotes. We base recommendations on the best data we currently have and update them when new information is available.
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Replying to @DrLovlie @intactive
Research has been done to describe the structures and functions of the foreskin. You could share that knowledge with parents contemplating removing it from a child. Maybe more relevant than "looking like dad and brothers" talk?
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Replying to @IntactByDefault @DrLovlie
Or an ethical doctor could simply refuse to perform a non-therapeutic operation on a non-consenting person.
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Replying to @intactive @IntactByDefault
I don’t actually perform them, but attacking my ethics because I do not immediately support your views without adequate data did not earn you any brownie points. Goodbye.
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Replying to @DrLovlie @IntactByDefault
Defensive much? If you don't do them, I wasn't talking about you, was I? Shouldn't one get the data BEFORE one considers cutting a normal, healthy, functional part from a non-consenting person?
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Agree, you made a fair point.
If there's a way to reconcile amputating a child's healthy body part in the absence of medical need w/the 4 cardinal principles of #bioethics that have governed the practice of medicine for millennia, by all means, let's hear it. @AmerAcadPeds #i2
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