Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine - Revision history

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	* [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]]		* [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]]
	* [[United States of America]]		* [[United States of America]]

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+}}</ref> <ref name="andersen2025" /> Boys are unable to grant consent due to their immaturity. Parental surrrogates must protect the interest and rights of the child patient. They are limited to granting [[surrogate consent]] for diagnosis and treatment of disease.  There is no person who is empowered to grant consent for non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] of a minor.<ref name="hill2002">{{REFjournal
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	}}</ref> Boys are unable to grant consent due their immaturity. Parental surrrogates must protect the interest of the child patient. They are limited to granting [[surrogate consent]] for diagnosis and treatment of disease. There is no person who is empowered to grant consent for non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] of a minor.<ref name="hill2002">{{REFjournal		}}</ref> Boys are unable to grant consent due to their immaturity. Parental surrrogates must protect the interest and rights of the child patient. They are limited to granting [[surrogate consent]] for diagnosis and treatment of disease. There is no person who is empowered to grant consent for non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] of a minor.<ref name="hill2002">{{REFjournal
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	==PFFR in West Virginia==		==PFFR in West Virginia==
	Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo\| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.		Parents of a boy in [[West Virginia]] have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo\| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.

	If true, then the osteopathic physician would appear to have violated the Second Tenet of Osteopathic Medicine.		If true, then the osteopathic physician would appear to have violated the Second Tenet of Osteopathic Medicine.

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	}}</ref> While there are no reports of a provider being criminally charged, the changing view of [[child circumcision]] has altered the atmosphere around [[child circumcision]], so a criminal charge may now be more likely than in the past.		}}</ref> While there are no reports of an American provider being criminally charged, in the [[United Kingdom]] Dr. [[Mohammad Siddiqui]] has been struck off the Medical Register and has been criminally charged by the Crown Prosecution Service. The changing view of [[child circumcision]] has altered the atmosphere around [[child circumcision]], so a criminal charge may now be more likely than in the past.

	It is more likely that a parent would bring a civil suit for injury caused by [[wrongful circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal		It is more likely that a parent would bring a civil suit for injury caused by [[wrongful circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal

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	}}</ref> [[Forced foreskin retraction]] is harmful~~, inappropriate~~, [[trauma\| traumatic]], painful, injurious, and inconsistent with the tenets of osteopathic medicine. The practice frequently generates a parental complaint of gratuitous clinical injury filed with state and federal medical authorities. ([[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] offers a free service to help parents file complaints.<ref>{{REFweb		}}</ref> [[Forced foreskin retraction]] is harmful, [[trauma\| traumatic]], painful, injurious, inappropriate, and inconsistent with the tenets of osteopathic medicine. The practice frequently generates a parental complaint of gratuitous clinical injury filed with state and federal medical authorities. ([[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] offers a free service to help parents file complaints.<ref>{{REFweb
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	\|title=PFFR Data Collection Form		\|title=PFFR Data Collection Form

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	==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==		==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==
			The four tenets of osteopathic medicine provide for treatment and well-being of the whole person. Allopathic medicine has nothing comparable.<ref>{{REFweb
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	===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===		===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===
	The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision\| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision\| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal		The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision\| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision\| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
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	==PFFR in West Virginia==		==PFFR in West Virginia==
	Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo\| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.		Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo\| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)\| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.

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	\|quote=In a critical disability studies framework, it is argued that the act of amputating healthy erogenous tissue and the consequences of that amputation cause disability, particularly from a counter-hegemonic lens.		\|quote=In a critical disability studies framework, it is argued that the act of amputating healthy erogenous tissue and the consequences of that amputation cause disability, particularly from a counter-hegemonic lens.
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	}}</ref> [[Amputation]] and lost of [https://circumcision.org/functions-of-the-foreskin/ function] may induce [[depression]] and even [[suicide]].		}}</ref> [[Amputation]] and lost of [https://circumcision.org/functions-of-the-foreskin/ function] may induce [[depression]] and even [[suicide]]. It is clear that unwanted [[circumcision]] makes many men very angry.<ref name="chapin2022">{{REFweb
			\|url=https://intactamerica.org/what-is-making-these-guys-so-angry/
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			\|quote=But we need to listen to the growing number of men speaking out about having been violated as babies when an essential (i.e., of its essence) part of their penis was forcibly severed. And we must ask ourselves whether the nearly ubiquitous violation of baby boys as a class of people and the assembly-line acts of violence carried out upon individual newborns might be responsible for at least some of the rage, pain and feelings of impotence that underlie the epidemic of mass killings we are witnessing today.
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	===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.===		===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.===

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	==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==		==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==
	===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===		===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===
	The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision\| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision\| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal		The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision\| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision\| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
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