Actually, for kids, it helps in easing the pain from hypospadia and hyperspadia and other issues a kid may be born with on his penis.
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Replying to @ynabeesa
Circumcision to address hypospadia/hyperspadia isn't always medically necessary or recommended. But the fact that it might be can't justify routinely forcing circumcision on healthy children. Stop confusing therapeutic & non therapeutic
#circumcision. https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/conservative-treatment.pdf …2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21
It is recommended. Really, not forced. At the end of the day, the parents decide if they want their infant to go through with the procedure or not. It is a surgery, and surgeries require consent. Don't they?
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Replying to @ynabeesa
You continue to misunderstand the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic
#circumcision. Without an actual medical condition that needs to be treated with circumcision (extremely rare), the surgery is nontherapeutic & only the patient himself can validly consent to it#i21 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21
Exactly. VMMC is voluntary and has been used to refer a lot of patients to specialists. We offer a package consisting of free STI Screening and treatment, HIV counselling, testing and risk counselling, condom distribution and referral to specialist care etc
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Replying to @ynabeesa
Are you saying
#VMMC doesn't circumcise healthy children? Because if not, you're still not understanding the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic (elective) surgery. Children can't validly consent to elective surgery of any kind, let alone surgery to cut off genitalia.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21
As I said, children are minors. Also, people change their minds at the last minute. Some children do. They are allowed to change their minds, are they not? That is why it is not FMMC but VMMC
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We circumcise children who meet the qualifications.
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Replying to @ynabeesa
No child can possibly "meet the qualifications" b/c children cannot validly
#consent to elective surgery. Why is this irrefutable ethical fact so difficult to understand?#i2@WHO@CDCgov@AmerAcadPeds#tweetiatrician#VMMC#MedEd#MedTwitter@HillaryClinton@BillGates5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Yes, we can advice people to embrace it, but we cannot force them to have VMMC or MC. You also can't force people not to have MC or VMMC. It is a person's choice at the end. As a medic, you are expected to have an open mind. It makes it easier to understand everything
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When you say it's a "person's choice" you mean it's an adult's choice. It's not a choice that can validly be made by a child. You can't point to a single example of another elective surgery to which a child could give "consent" that would be recognized as valid by a civilized MD
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