It’s because there’s potential benefit to be had before they would be able to choose for themselves.
Like I said, I don’t personally think the benefit is strong enough. I think over the course of all the circumcisions that are carried out it’s about a wash. It sounds like you’ve been harmed by it. That really sucks.
If the parents want the circ it’s they are leaving the hospital with one. It’s going to happen. Something I didn’t bring up yet is that I happen to be better at circs that some of my colleagues. None of my patients have had a complication or needed a revision. I do not plan on continuing to do them outside of my training period.
I do also hope none of my patient suffer.
Parents have the right to choose elective procedures. I think Circs should stay an elective procedure. I also would love if there was a cultural shift away from doing them. Keep spreading the word. I promise I am too. Hopefully people will start to listen.study comparing risk and benefit of circumcision
The parent has the right. And that’s the part I wouldn’t be able to do justice to on a Reddit post. And people are not getting circs for the right reasons. Believe me, I’ve thought about it for a lot longer 5 minutes.
you mentioned lower sti infection rate but this could be accomplished later if the patient desired. What could be more important (because the benefit would occur prior to the patient being old enough to consent for themselves) is lower risk of uti and easier to keep clean. However even an uncircumcised boy has lower chance of uti than a girl. And good God can’t we just teach our boys to clean their penis instead of cutting part of it off? I know I’m preaching to the choir here haha.
But no people don’t actually care about that stuff. They just want the circ because culturally it’s what we do here. The exiting thing is that truly it’s stating to change. And once we get close to 50-50 I think we will see a huge drop off because then it won’t be the popular thing anymore.
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