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[[File:Jean-Marie Huot.jpg|thumb|Jean-Marie Huot]]
The late '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData |birth=1918-06-26 |birthplace= |birthcountry= |death=2009-01-31}}), was a general practitioner in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [[Canada]].
== The case of Bruce and Brian Reimer ==
The [[foreskin]] of healthy infant boys normally is developmentally non-retractable.<ref name="gairdner1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</ref>

Dr. Huot examined six-month-old twin boys Bruce and Brian Reimer. He mis-diagnosed their healthy, developmentally non-retractable [[foreskin]] as ''[[phimosis]]''. The twin boys were scheduled for [[circumcision]] — excision and [[amputation]] of the foreskin — at the age of eight-months.

Bruce was the first born of the two, so he was scheduled first. Dr. Huot inexplicably chose to use an electrocautery device to perform the medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision. The electric current so burned Bruce's [[penis]] that it was destroyed.

Brian's circumcision was cancelled after the disaster with Bruce's circumcision and never performed. Brian's foreskin later spontaneously become retractable.

Brian and Bruce/David both committed suicide.

== Postscript ==
Bruce Reimer later changed his name to David Reimer.

Dr. Huot retired from medical practice in 1992.

Dr. Jean-Marie Huot is remembered as the physician who performed a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1966 on eight-month-old [[David Reimer]] with an electrocautery device and destroyed David's [[penis]].
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* [[Canada]]
* [[David_Reimer]]
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 |title=Dr. Jean-Marie Huot
 |publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
 |date=2009-02-05
 |accessdate=2023-03-12
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