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- From: noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer)
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- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.053137.28211@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 05:31:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu> <1h7lh5INNdih@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com> strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom) writes:
- >In article <1h7lh5INNdih@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts) writes:
- >
- >|>
- >|> Among my earliest memories are memories of going to a doctor multiple
- >|> times to be treated for a swollen, purple, infected circumcision scar.
- >
- >You remember what happened when you were 8 days old???
-
- Well, since my brother was still going to the hospital at age six to be
- treated for problems which resulted from complications of a
- circumcision, your assuming that only "eight-day-olds: could ever,
- possibly have memories of such complications are quite narrow at best.
- >
- >Jewish circumcisions (which is where this thread originally started)
-
- "originally started" - quite redundant today, aren't we?
- >are not performed by "the medical establishment".
- >
-
- Orthodox or reformed? A "chosen one" or a heretic? Are there "degrees"
- of Jewishness? I know a Jewish attorney. His son was circumcised by a
- doctor. Doesn't fit with your explanation. Maybe you have stats.
-
- >The mohel who circumcized me did nothing but circumcisions;
- >the mohel who circumcized my son did nothing but circumcisions.
-
- Was he paid, or did he just take "tips?"
-
- Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM
-