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
Is there any way to defend nontherapeutic child #circumcision when it's obviously the cultural significance of that practice to the individual child (not his parents) that matters? Or is silence here an ackowledgment that patient views don't matter to pro-cutters? #i2 #MedEd
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