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- From: gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
- Subject: Circumcision as Medical Scams
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- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:01:47 GMT
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- Just a couple of closing thoughts on circumcision. It is not
- at all unusual to me to suspect folks who have circumcised their
- sons would wish to rationalize it. If I had mine,I believe I would too.
- The point is that there is nothing inherently dirty,diseased or
- pathological with a foreskin. The structure evolved for well over a
- million years without being disguarded. I have always thought the Jewish
- people would be the most intolerant to any challenge of the practice.
- I have found this to be (at least in USA) to be wrong. Dr. Dean Edell
- and Ed Wallerstein are good examples. Even my boss,who is culturally
- Jewish confided that son number two will most likely decide the bris
- question for himself!
-
- I am very disturbed by many MDs such as the out rageous ARRON FINK
- who have gone over board to keep the medical issues charged in FAVOR
- of routine circumcisions.
-
- I suspect if I were an opponent of circs in ISLAM I would loose my
- feet,but in Israel probably just be considered reformist. :*)
-
- While in the mean time the American Press so tilted the AAP
- statement toward a dire compulsion in 1989, that our local
- hospital which was circing 43% of newborns now does 98%.
- That is medical scam by any definition!
- And by the way, in Kentucky the circs are done by green interns
- to get snipping experience so one hospital told me. Maybe thats why
- the fee of 60 bucks is cut rate?!
-
- By the way my son is 13, never had a problem and never even had to
- wash his penis much. Smegma is a normal secretion,but it is almost
- unheard of in 60% of men not circed. Apparently its production is
- something like ear wax. In some it is copious and appears to have a
- genetic relationship.
-
- --
- I Gary Davis Dpt. of Electrical Engineering
- University of Vermont
-