Joseph4GI: GEORGIA: Circumcision Sends a Baby to the NICU

I've said it many times. Circumcision has risks.

This just came up on my Facebook news feed. It apparently happened on July 19 in Georgia.

Circumcision has risks.

The risks include infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage and even death.

Tales on Facebook abound, but the great majority will never make it to news outlets.

American medical associations have reputations, financial interests and members to protect, so they have plenty of incentive to minimize the risks of circumcision.

Hospitals have no obligation to release information regarding adverse outcomes

These are circumcision cases that parents have decided to post on Facebook; some are asked by doctors or hospitals to keep their cases secret.

Because circumcision is an elective, non-medical procedure, it is unconscionable to be putting healthy, non-consenting minors at these risks to begin with.

The cases presented here and otherwise were perfectly preventable.

Beyond this, I don't know what else to say.

I've said it all before and I don't know what I've already said and/or what I'm leaving out.

When are people going to wake up to this?

Are doctors really actually properly informing parents of the risks of circumcision?

Is the AAP keeping count? Because we sure are.

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