@cooney21 I totally agree with you on Circumcision. I am a retired OB, who managed to talk many parents out of it. But there others who I couldn’t. I think it’s an unnecessary procedure on innocent children who can’t protest.
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Replying to @Gregory_Malchuk @cooney21
Yes, I did. After a lengthy counseling. I felt duty bound to honor their wishes, as they were my patients. I was the first in hospital to use local anesthetic. No regrets.
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They were not your patients just then, the babies were, and there was nothing wrong with them. You wouldn't have felt duty bound to honour wishes to cut any other normal, healthy, functional body part off a baby, would you? Why just this one? 1/2
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You are right, but it’s complicated. State laws defer to parents wishes unless ‘great harm’. Back then (even now) this is the law. NYC tried to ban the practice of Rabbis sucking blood by mouth at circs and lost, only recently. It was Religious effing and parental freedom.
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And no, it's not complicated. It's a violation of your ethical duty to first do no harm, and to avoid amputative surgeries on minors that are not absolutely necessary. What authority can you point to that says cutting off part of someone else's penis isn't "great harm"? #i2
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