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Originally Posted by Mike F
First, I'll take my medical advice from a doctor rather than Penn and Teller.
Second, there are many medical procedures which are painful to undergo and uncomfortable to watch, but are worth the long term benefits.
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You can make assumptions before seeing it all you want, what I referring to was the video in it of actual circumcisions with a baby crying harder than I have ever seen.
http://www.cps.ca/english/statements...TED%20DISEASES
Canadian Pediatric Society (hope this is enough doctors for you)
-Urinary tract infection is 4% higher in uncircumcised infants.
-Some studies show a correlation between std's and circumcision and some don't, I'll even give you this one that it will slightly help prevent HIV infection, however there is no way you can argue that condom use should be taught as the only real preventative measure.
-Complications are are however "amputation of the glans,
84-86 acute renal failure,
87 life-threatening sepsis and, rarely, death." Seems like unnecessary risk for a procedure that has little medical benefit.
-During infancy, the circumcised children had a statistically significantly higher risk of problems than the uncircumcised boys, but among the older children the uncircumcised boys had a significantly higher rate of penile problems, which included penile inflammation and phimosis. (draw I guess)
-Newborn infants exhibit physiological, autonomic and behavioural responses to noxious stimuli. These responses suggest that they experience pain, and there is evidence that preventing pain in newborns can be important.
100 Newborns who undergo circumcision without an anesthetic have greater increases in heart rate, cry longer and have greater decreases in transcutaneous oxygen tension than those who undergo the procedure after administration of a dorsal penile nerve block with lidocaine.
101 Behavioural differences have also been reported. Infants circumcised without an anesthetic were reported to show decreases in responsiveness and in optimal motor performance in comparison with those who received a dorsal penile nerve block.
102 These differences were still evident a day after the procedure. Furthermore, a recent report has described significantly longer crying bouts and pain scores among circumcised boys than among uncircumcised boys during routine vaccination at 4 to 6 months of age. (some are done without anesthetic which is truly barbaric)
The CPS recommends that "Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely (i.e.,in the absence of medical indication) performed." Since there are no medical indications for circumcision in the newborn period, in effect, the CPS is saying that newborn circumcisions should not be performed.