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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Circumcision (moved from net.women.*)
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 12:57:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 12:57:45 1984
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	Two anecdotes:

	We had our son circumcised last year.  His only objection
was to being tied onto what the nurses refer to as "the rack."  My
husband and I were there for the surgery and I nursed him immediately
afterward.  He never showed any signs of being in pain, although he
responded quite negatively to other benign procedures like the pin
prick for removing blood for jaundice tests.  HOWEVER, we did not 
realize that it was very important to pull back the foreskin and wash
the glans daily.  He now has a slight adhesion which his pediatrician
assures us will "unstick once he begins self-manipulation."  One
reason for circumcising him is that my father was *not* circumcised
and developed a serious constriction in middle age which had to be
corrected by circumcision--he WAS in a lot of pain.

	Our pediatrician related the story of a medical student (resident)
performing a circumcision in which he removed ALL of the foreskin--
right to the base of the shaft.  So, serious errors due occur!
I won't go to a hospital connected with a medical school under any
foreseeable circumstances.  I've heard too many horror stories.

						P. Collins
						hplabs