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[[Image:Jay Buenafe.jpg|right|thumb|Jay Buenafe]]
Jay Buenafe is a family physician who has recently expanded his practice to include non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision ]] under the tutelage of [[Neil Pollock]].<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=He has now expanded his practice to include infant circumcision. He has studied and trained with Dr. Neil Pollock, a pioneer and foremost authority in North America on this procedure.
|url=http://www.circumcisionmanitoba.ca/about.php
|publisher=Winnipeg Parent
|quote=Dr. Buenafe went to Vancouver and worked intensively with Dr. Pollock under his careful supervision.
|date=2012-06-16 Jun 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=He went to Vancouver to learn Dr. Neil Pollock's circumcision technique...
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref>
The [[Canadian Urological Association]] (2018) says "neonatal circumcision cannot be justified based
on the current evidence available."<ref name="cua2018">{{REFjournal
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|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
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|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>
He has a website<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=
|url=httphttps://wwwbuenafeclinic.circumcisionmanitoba.cacom/index.php |title=Buenafe Infant Circumcision& Vasectomy Clinic in Winnipeg |last=Bunarafe |first=Jay
|publisher=
|website=
|date=
|accessdate=20122020-06-1607
}}</ref> that is nearly identical to that of [[Neil Pollock]] and [[Pierre Crouse]] on which he offers the same sales pitches and misinformation to parents, and he has announced in at least one magazine for parents.<ref>{{REFnews
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|publisher=Winnipeg Parent
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|date=2012-06-16 Jun 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref>
=== Ethnic background ===
Jay Buenafe emmigrated immigrated to [[Canada ]] from the Philippines,<refname="sanders2012">{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=Buenafe, who came to Canada from the Philippines in 2002.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> where [[Tuli| circumcision ]] is considered a right of passage, and 80% of Filipino males are [[circumcised]], according to the WHO.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|title=New circumcision method faster, safer: MD
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=In the Philippines, non-religious circumcision ([[Tuli]]) is routine and is performed on more than 80 per cent of baby boys, the [[World Health Organization ]] reports. |date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> As a member of the Filipino community, Buenafe caters mainly to the Filipino community,<ref>{{REFnews
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=<q>I'd been getting lots of demand from my patients, specifically in the Filipino community,</q> said Dr. Jay Buenafe.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> although he also extends his services to non-Filipinos.<ref>{{REFnews
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=<q>"and people from different religious sectors and foreign countries who have this as a tradition,</q> he said.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref>
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=This is the bulk of my practice.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> Even before adopting 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= |etal=yes |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> from [[Neil Pollock]] (Buenafe started using it in April, 2012.),<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=...Buenafe started using it at his Jefferson Avenue clinic this month.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> Buenafe had already been performing circumcisions for a number of years among the Canadian Filipino community,<ref>{{REFnews
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=He's been performing circumcisions for a number of years for Filipino-Canadian patients' newborn boys...
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> as well as for parents of other religious and ethnic backgrounds.<ref>{{REFnews
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=<q>and people from different religious sectors and foreign countries who have this as a tradition,</q> he said.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> Buenafe charges C$299 per newborn circumcision.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=<Buenafe charges $299 to perform the procedure on babies younger than two months.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> (Source last checked on June 17, 2012)
The [https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/mhsip/index.html Manitoba Health Insurance Plan] has not paid for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] since 2006.<ref name="sanders2012" /> Circumcisions must be paid for by the patient or his representative.
== Buenafe's website identical to those of Pollock and Crouse ==
}}</ref>
(An interesting note: As of April 2012, the [[Canadian Pediatric Paediatric Society ]] has not yet reviewed the so-called "Pollock" (AKA [[Mogen]]) method.<refname="Sanders-2012">{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=A society spokesperson said Wednesday the Pollock method Buenafe performs hasn't been reviewed.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref>)
Except for a few changes in wording, Buenafe's "Parents' Guide to Circumcision" page is nearly identical, to those of [[Neil Pollock]] and [[Pierre Crouse]], advertizing the [[Mogen]] technique as taking less than a minute, and advertizing identical pain control methods of Tylenol, sugar, and a local anaesthetic injection.<refname="Buenafe">{{REFweb
|quote=We use extensive pain control methods including Tylenol, a sugar solution (to reduce pain perceptions), a topical freezing cream, and a local anesthetic injection.
|url=http://www.circumcisionmanitoba.ca/parents-guides-to-circumcision.php
|date=
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |quote=We use extensive pain control methods including Tylenol, a sugar solution (to reduce pain perceptions), a topical freezing cream, and a local anesthetic injection. |url=http://www.circumcisionmanitoba.ca/parents-guides-to-circumcision.php |title=Parent's Guides to Circumcision |last= |first= |publishername="Buenafe Infant Circumcision |website= |date= |accessdate=2012-06-16}}<"/ref><ref>{{REFweb
|quote=A relatively new approach has recently been developed that allows for a virtually painless and bloodless procedures to be done safely in seconds.
|url=http://www.circumcisionmanitoba.ca/faq.php
|date=
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref> As Pollock, Pierre Crouse, Buenafe announces that the [[pain ]] control methods used are Tylenol, sugar, a topical cream, and a local anaesthetic injection.<ref>{{REFweb |quote=We use extensive pain control methods including Tylenol, a sugar solution (to reduce pain perceptions), a topical freezing cream, and a local anesthetic injection. |url=http://www.circumcisionmanitoba.ca/parents-guides-to-circumcision.php |title=Parent's Guides to Circumcision |last= |first= |publishername="Buenafe Infant Circumcision |website= |date= |accessdate=2012-06-16}}<"/ref> The topical anaesthetic only serves to numb the area to lessen the pain of the injection, but studies have shown that a dorsal penile [[ring block ]] is not always effective in stopping the [[pain ]] of [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Taeusch
|first=H. William
|init=HW
|last2=Martinez
|first2=Alma M.
|last2init2=MartinezAM |last3=Partridge
|first3=J. Colin
|last3init3=PartridgeJC |last4=Sniderman
|first4=Susan
|last4init4=SnidermanS |last5=Armstrong-Wells
|first5=Jennifer
|last5init5=ArmstrongJ |last6=Fuentes-WellsAfflick
|first6=Elena
|last6init6=Fuentes-AfflickE |title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Plastibell Circumcision
|journal=Journal of Perinatology
|volume=22
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|date=2002-04 |note=April/May 2002
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref><ref name='Clinical Pediatrics August 1986'>{{REFjournal
|last=Williamson
|first=Paul S.
|init=PS
|last2=Evans
|first2=Nolan Donovan
|last2init2=EvansND
|title=Neonatal Cortisol Response to Circumcision with Anesthesia
|journal=Clinical Pediatrics
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|date=August 1986-08
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> During the [[circumcision]], the child is given sugar to "reduce his pain perceptions", but in at least one study, data shows that giving sugar to a child doesn't help to reduce the perception of pain in the child.<ref name='Lancet, The 2010-10-09'>{{REFjournal
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|last8init8=MeekJ |last9=Fitzgerald
|first9=Prof. Maria
|last9init9=FitzgeraldM
|title=Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants: a randomised controlled trial
|journal=Lancet, The
==== What Buenafe may not tell parents about Mogen ====
Like, Pollock and Crouse, Buenafe peddles the [[Mogen]] technique (as the "Pollock technique on his website), but what he may not tell parents is that the Mogen clamp has been notorious for glans amputations, even among experienced conductors of [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Taeusch
|first=H. William
|init=HW
|last2=Martinez
|first2=Alma M.
|last2init2=MartinezAM |last3=Partridge
|first3=J. Colin
|last3init3=PartridgeJC |last4=Sniderman
|first4=Susan
|last4init4=SnidermanS |last5=Armstrong-Wells
|first5=Jennifer
|last5init5=ArmstrongJ |last6=Fuentes-WellsAfflick
|first6=Elena
|last6init6=Fuentes-AfflickE |title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Plastibell Circumcision
|journal=Journal of Perinatology
|volume=22
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|date=2002-04 |note=April/May 2002
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<ref>{{REFnews
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> In a different case, at [https://www.yellowpages.com/atlanta-ga/mip/south-fulton-medical-center-482596089 South Fulton Medical Center], another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Tagami
|first=Ty
== Buenafe admits CPS does not approve ==
Buenafe admits that the [[Canadian Pediatric Paediatric Society ]] does not endorse infant circumcision, as they ascertain that there is not enough evidence to do so.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=<q>The Canadian Pediatric Society still doesn't recommend it,</q> he said.
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}</ref>(The Canadian Pediatric Paediatric Society has said there is no point to circumcision since 1982.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Sanders
|first=Carol
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|quote=Since 1982, the Canadian Pediatric Society...
|date=2012-04-19 Apr 2012
|accessdate=2012-06-16
}}
</ref>)
In addition, as of April 2012, the Canadian Pediatric Paediatric Society has not yet reviewed the so-called "Pollock" (AKA [[Mogen]]) method.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname="Sanders |first=Carol |url=http:-2012"//www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/new-circumcision-method-faster-safer-md-148056045.html> |title=New circumcision method faster, safer: MD |publisher=Winnipeg Free Press |quote=A society spokesperson said Wednesday the Pollock method Buenafe performs hasn't been reviewed. |dateLack of third-party payment=19 Apr 2012 |accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref>
[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is not available in [[Canada]].
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* [[Canada]]
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