Great question: “how can we be an objective scientist and an advocate? #CUGH2018
I think us pediatricians are ok at this. Especially @AmerAcadPeds. Not perfect but we really try and be objective and advocate for child health.
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Replying to @jamee_walters @AmerAcadPeds
Actually awful at both objectivity & advocacy. How can a policy statement objectively address risk/benefit of amputation of a child's healthy body part w/out assessing its nature & functions? Shouldn't child advocates question the ethics of doing so?
#i2https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
"Not perfect" is an understatement with regards to the issue of patients having the opportunity to keep their genitals intact. On this particular issue "abysmal" would be a better word for
@AmerAcadPeds objectivity and advocacy.#i21 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
if the AAP's position on genital cutting were objective, it would not have received such unprecedented criticism from so many of the world's physicians. If it were meritorious,
#tweetiatricians@AAPPres would be defending it. Their silence is telling.#i2 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/796 …1 reply 5 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @IntactByDefault and
I think that proves the point. The journal this was published in is from the AAP. They are open to other opinions.
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Replying to @jamee_walters @cooney21 and
It is to their credit that they chose to publish it. Weighed against official policy it is small. Now that its 5 year expiration is up a new non-biased task force should produce a policy that puts kids first and doesn't value sexual anatomy as garbage.
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Agreed IBD. But AAP just picked their "Top 10 Resolutions" for 2018 & this topic isn't on the list. Seems odd given 1) that it's the most commonly performed surgery in the US, 2) the way the '12 policy statement was excoriated & is now expired & 3) it's a children's rights issue
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