18/33 Are cut men to believe that the penis part that’s removed is so bad, when what’s not cut is so good? Not just any part is cut, but the part intact men almost universally call most sensitive. How is amputating unique, healthy, & sensitive genital tissue from a child ethical?
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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
#AAP18 that the “scientifically untenable”#AAP#circumcision policy needs to be retired immediately.#i2#AAP18#tweetiatrician#tweetiatricians#mededShow this thread -
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.
#i2#AAP18#tweetiatrician#tweetiatricians#meded#ethics#bioethics#medtwitterShow this thread -
33/33 Tagging in
@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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