Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!pc From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Circumcision (moved from net.women.*) Message-ID: <2056@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 12:57:45 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2056 Posted: Thu Feb 2 12:57:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:07:55 EST References: <6420@watrose.UUCP>, <356@aecom.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 26 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