Today, I signed an Executive Order that temporarily postpones non-essential medical and dental procedures. This will reduce the strain on the health care system, protect people, and help to #FlattenTheCurve. Read more: https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90640-522455--,00.html …
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#circumcision is the most commonly performed surgery in the US, but nearly always unneeded. There are about 3,000 daily / 1 million annually in the US. So indefinitely postponing all of them will have a significant effect on efforts to properly conserve#PPE &#triage -
3/3 Second, & though the wording of EO 2020-17 quite clearly DOES apply to
#circumcision, it is apparently in the nature of the MDs who perform this surgery on infants & children to think that the rules - including those of#bioethics & basic human decency - don't apply to them. - 1 more reply
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