This aligns with recommendations from @AmerAcadPeds and @CDCgov: #Circumcision is up to the parents. (And the health benefits outweigh the risks.)https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1108146755311407105 …
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1. the AAP admitted the risks are unknown, thereby making that conclusion illogical. 2. After global rebuke for having that anti-scientific position, the AAP later admitted they were referring to "cultural" benefits, not "health" ones:https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/5/e20160594 …
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On the contrary, the writer was acknowledging that for parents the decision has cultural significance. Also note the editorialist was not officially speaking for
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#i2 And what of the cultural significance to the PATIENT? You DO remember the patient, right? The person being forced to give up a healthy & functional part of his penis over his screaming objections? What would you say to such a patient? Like this one: http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/to-mohel-who-cut-me.html …2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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Parents are the patient by proxy. If a parent needs an operation he can always have his child undergo the operation for him. Or her... It just makes medical sense...
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AAP Bioethics Committee: "Only patients who have ... decisional capacity and legal empowerment can give their informed consent to medical care. In all other situations, parents ... provide informed permission for diagnosis and treatment of children."
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So a parental decision (or "permission") to amputate part of their child's body made b/c it has "cultural significance," or for any reason other than bona fide "diagnosis" or "treatment," is bioethically invalid. #i2 #tweetiatrician #tweetiatricians #meded #medtwitter #ethics
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