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'''Murray Katz''' is a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor ]] whose primary business is the [[circumcision ]] of children. The [[Canadian Urological Association]] says "neonatal circumcision cannot be justified based on the current evidence available."<ref name="cua2018">{{REFjournal |last=Dave |first=Sumit |init=S |author-link= |last2=Afshar |first2=Kourash |init2=K |author2-link= |last3=Braga |first3=Luis |init3=L |author3-link= |last4=Anderson |first4=Peter |init4=P |author4-link= |etal=no |title=Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version) |journal=Can Urol Assoc J |location= |date=2018-02 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=E76-99 |url=http://www.cua.org/themes/web/assets/files/5033_foreskin_guideline_longversion.pdf |pubmedID=29381458 |pubmedCID=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc5937400/ |DOI=/10.5489/cuaj.5033 |accessdate=2020-07-07}}</ref>

According to the ''National Post'', Murray Katz collaborated with [[Neil Pollock]] on creating a so-called "new and innovative technique" for [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFnews

Closer inspection reveals that Pollock and Katz aren't doing anything "new"; on his website, Pollock reveals that he uses the Mogen technique, <ref name="kaweblum1984">{{REFjournal |last=Kaweblum |first=Yosef |init=Y |author-link= |last2=Press |first2=Shirley |init2=S |author2-link= |last3=Kogan |first3=Leib |init3=L |author3-link= |title=Circumcision using the mogen clamp |journal=Clin Pediatr (Phila.) |location= |date=1984-12 |volume=23 |issue= |pages=679-82 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mogen/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=6499347 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1177/000992288402301204 |accessdate=2020-08-06}}</ref> which involves the [[Mogen]] clamp.<ref>{{REFweb

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|last6init6=Fuentes-AfflickE |title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Plastibell Circumcision

}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<refname="tagami2011">{{REFnews

}}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company. |datename=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011"/ref> after a mohel<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=The baby in the current case, identified in court documents only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis ... |datename=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011"/ref> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publishername= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use... |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}<"tagami2011"/ref> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<refname="tagami2011"/> In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref name="tagami2011"/> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref name="tagami2011"/> ==Lack of third-party payment== [[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is not available in [[Canada]].<ref name="skeldon2008">{{REFnewsREFdocument |lasttitle=Tagami |first=TyThe Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada |url=httphttps://wwwprism.ajcucalgary.comca/bitstream/newshandle/nation-world1880/47498/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-5738902008_HMD_Skeldon.htmlpdf?sequence=1 |titlecontribution=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisherlast=Skeldon |workfirst=The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSean |quotepublisher=Attorney David Llewellyn won a similar case in Atlanta last year and the injury behind that prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court put the New York clamp manufacturer on notice about the danger University of the device...Calgary |format=PDF |date=2010-072008-1903 |accessdate=20112022-0406-0830

In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |quote=Llewellyn won another circumcision case in 2009 over an operation at South Fulton Medical Center. |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08SEEALSO}}</ref> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref>{{REFnews |last=Tagami |first=Ty |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision |publisher= |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution* [[Bias]] |quote=The jury found that both the pediatrician and the physician who performed the circumcision were negligent, and awarded $2.3 million to the plaintiffs.* [[Canada]] |date=2010-07-19 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref>* [[Circumcised doctors]]

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