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Dr. '''George Willard Kaplan''', {{MD}}, {{MS}} , {{FACS}}, {{FAAP}}<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=i_6G9YS9SB8C&pg=PP10&lpg=PP10&dq=George+W.+kaplan+doctor+Texas+san+diego&source=bl#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20kaplan%20doctor%20Texas%20san%20diego&f=false |title=Handbook of Pediatric Urology |publisher=Google Books |accessdate=2022-01-11}}</ref>, ({{LifeData|birth=1935-08-24|birthplace=Brownsville, {{USSC|TX}}}})<ref name="Scherz 2008">{{REFjournal
|url=https://www.academia.edu/15182240/George_W._Kaplan
|title=George W. Kaplan
}}</ref>
== Curriculum vitae ==Kaplan was Professor of Clinical Surgery and Pediatrics at {{UNI|University of California, San Diego|UCSF}}, and has long had an interest in medical and local history. Dr. Kaplan has published over 250 scientificarticles and textbook chapters, and co-authored one textbook.<ref>{{REFjournal
|url=http://www.sandiegohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/V61-3-4-Kaplan.pdf
|title=Peter C. Remondino, MD: the Man and his Library
|accessdate=2022-01-11
}}</ref>
Kaplan was a member of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] task force that produced the 1999 Circumcision Policy Statement.<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal
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|first=Carole M.
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|last4=Kaplan
|first4=George W.
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|last5=Shoemaker
|first5=Craig T.
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|last6=Swanson
|first6=Jack T.
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|last7=Coustan
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|title=Circumcision policy statement
|journal=Pediatrics
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|date=1999-09
|volume=103
|issue=3
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|pages=686-93
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/
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|quote=
|pubmedID=22926180
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|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1989
|accessdate=2021-01-11
}}</ref> The statement clearly stated that non-therapeutic infant circumcision "is not essential to the child's current well-being".
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|Text=George W. Kaplan was a Jewish doctor and a good one. My understanding is that he thought that ''circumcision was good if done correctly.''
|Author=[[George Hill]]
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|url=https://wsaua.org/george-kaplan-md-awarded-distinguished-member-for-2017/
|title=George Kaplan, MD – Awarded Distinguished Member for 2017
|website=Western Section AUA
|accessdate=2022-01-11
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