16/33 Even the #AAP #Bioethics Committee says parents can’t give proxy consent (i.e., “informed permission”) to have a child’s healthy body part amputated if it’s not for diagnosis or treatment. #i2 #ethics #AAP18 #tweetiatrician #tweetiatricians #meded http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …
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27/33 A better example is set by @DrChen4kids, although she got off to a bad start by making a common
#FAAP error: blaming parents for a doctor’s ethical failure.#i2#AAP18#tweetiatrician#tweetiatricians#PutKids1st#VoteKids#meded#medtwitter#ethics#bioethicspic.twitter.com/hE7eMY75X9
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28/33 In the end however, after listening carefully,
@DrJenChen4kids acknowledged what every honest person must: that genital-cutting MDs DO bear responsibility, & should apologize for, the nontherapeutic#circumcisions they perform on non-consenting minors.#i2#AAP18#VoteKidspic.twitter.com/yEHTLE6OeP
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#Tweetiatricians, if you’re struggling to find credible answers to the questions on this thread that will still allow for a defense of nontherapeutic child#circumcision, then maybe you should follow Dr Chen’s example & stop trying to defend the indefensible.#i2#AAP18Show this thread -
30/33 Those of you at
#AAP18 might want to take it a step further: go outside & actually listen to all of the people who have come out to demonstrate against#AAP#circumcision policy.@bdmarotta@TrishCausey @Intact_Nation Listen to the regret parents who were lied to by MDs.Show this thread -
31/33 Listen to the circumcised men who object to what was done to them. And then come back inside & tell everyone else at
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32/33 A physician’s first priority is to recognize harm, particularly when it’s iatrogenic, & to protect patients, especially children, from that harm. If you fail at that, little else matters.
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@EMeadeMD &@SeattleMamaDoc Hopefully they can continue to set a good example by demonstrating the right way to respond on#twitter & other#SoMe to the questions & concerns expressed here, by@jordanarel,@bdmarotta &@circmovie, & by many others.#i2#AAP18Show this thread
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No, after reading the attached, I wonder why US MDs think only girls, but not boys, should be allowed to keep the healthy bodies they're born with. It seems to me the impediment to our conversation is your inability or refusal to answer that question.
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