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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' was a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.<ref>{{REFjournal
'''Thomas E. Wiswell''', {{MD}}, was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<ref name=WiswellEtAl1993>{{REFjournal
  | last=Wiswell
  |last=Wiswell
  | first=Thomas
  |first=Thomas E.
  | coauthors=Wayne Hachey
  |init=TE
  | date=1993-03
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
  | title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update
|last2=Hachey
  | journal=Clinical Pediatrics
|first2=Wayne
  | volume=32
  |init2=W
  | issue=3
  |title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update
  | pages=130-4
  |journal=Clinical Pediatrics
  | url=
  |volume=32
  | quote=
  |issue=3
  | pubmedID=8453827
  |pages=130-134
  | DOI=10.1177/000992289303200301
  |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000992289303200301
  | accessdate=2011-04-28
  |quote=
}}</ref> Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]).
  |pubmedID=8453827
  |DOI=10.1177/000992289303200301
|date=1993-03
  |accessdate=2020-04-23
}}</ref> He practices as neonatologist (Pediatrician who cares for and treats newborns in particular) among others in Honolulu, {{USSC|HI}},<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/thomas-wiswell-404405
|title=Dr. Thomas E. Wiswell,MD
|website=US News
|accessdate=2020-04-23
}}</ref> and Orlando, {{USSC|FL}},<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctor.com/Dr-Thomas-Wiswell
|title=Dr. Thomas E Wiswell,MD
|website=doctor.com
|accessdate=2020-04-23
}}</ref> USA. Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]). Wiswell is generally believed to be a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]].
 
Wiswell now practices medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, [[USA]]. He is regarded as a promoter of unnecessary, harmful, [[Pain| painful]], [[Trauma| traumatic]] infant [[circumcision]].
 
==Myth-maker==
Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that falsely claimed [[circumcision]] reduced the incidence of [[urinary tract infection]]s.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|init=TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Smith
|init2=FR
|last3=Bass
|init3=JW
|title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants.
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1983-05
|volume=75
|issue=5
|pages=901-903
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|init=TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1986
|volume=77
|pages=267-268
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|init=TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Roscelli
|init2=JD
|title=Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1986
|volume=78
|pages=96-99
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|init=TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Enzenauer
|init2=RW
|last3=Holton
|init3=ME
|last4=Cornish
|init4=JD
|last5=Hankins
|init5=CT
|title=Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1987
|volume=79
|pages=338-342
}}</ref><ref name=WiswellEtAl1993/> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision
|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1999
|volume=103
|issue=3
|pages=686-693
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|init=RS
|author-link=Robert Van Howe
|title=Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection
|journal=J Infect
|date=2005
|volume=51
|issue=1
|pages=59-68
}}</ref> Wiswell's retroactive "studies" had serious methodological flaws, however circumcision promoter [[Edgar J. Schoen]] chose to cite these studies in the [https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989 1989 AAP Circumcision Policy statement]. This started the myth that infant [[circumcision]] can prevent [[urinary tract infection]]. UTI after circumcision is an issue in [[Israel]].


Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that claimed circumcision reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections.<ref>Wiswell TE, Smith FR, Bass JW. Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants. Pediatrics 1983 may;75(5):901-3</ref><ref>Wiswell TE. Circumcision and urinary tract infections. Pediatrics 1986; 77: 267-8.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Roscelli JD. Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants. Pediatrics 1986;78:96-99.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Enzenauer RW, Holton ME, Cornish JD, Hankins CT. Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy. Pediatrics 1987; 79: 338-42.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Hachey WE. Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1993; 32: 130-4.</ref> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>AAP Task Force on Circumcision. Circumcision Policy Statement. Pediatrics 1999;103(3):686-693.</ref><ref>Van Howe RS. Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection. J Infect 2005;51(1):59-68.</ref> Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
  |last=Morris
  |last=Morris
  |first=Brian
  |first=Brian J.
|init=BJ
  |author-link=Brian J. Morris
  |author-link=Brian J. Morris
  |year=2007
  |year=2007
  |title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know
  |title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know
  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf
  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf
  |editor=Vernon Quaintance
  |editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance]]
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=
|pages=
  |location=London, England
  |location=London, England
  |publisher=Gilgal Society
  |publisher=[[Gilgal Society]]
|isbn=
|note=
|accessdate=
}}</ref> a [[circumfetish]] group.<ref>{{REFbook
}}</ref> a [[circumfetish]] group.<ref>{{REFbook
  | last=Thomas
  |last=Thomas
  | first=A.
  |first=A.
  | year=2005
|init=A
  | title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study
  |year=2005
  | url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf
  |title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study
  | editor=Vernon Quaintance
  |url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf
| edition=
  |editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance]]
  | volume=4
  |volume=4
  | chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision
  |chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision
  | pages=191
  |page=191
  | location=London, England
  |location=London, England
  | publisher=The Gilgal Society
  |publisher=[[Gilgal Society]]
| isbn=
  |ID=EMS-EN 0304-2
| note=
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
| accessdate=
|last=Price
  | ID = EMS-EN 0304-2
|first=Christopher P.
}}</ref><ref>Christopher P Price. Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Denniston GC, Hodges FM and Milos MF eds.) New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999: 425-454. http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/</ref>
|init=CP
|author-link=Christopher P. Price
|chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues
|title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice
|editors=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF]]
|location=New York
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
|date=1999
|pages=425-54
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/
}}</ref>
 
Wiswell has allied himself with [[Brian J. Morris]] and other circumcision advocates since 2009. He co-authors articles with Morris and others.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Morris
|init=BJ
|author-link=Brian J. Morris
|last2=Bailis
|init2=SA
|author2-link=Stefan A. Bailis
|last3=Waskett
|init3=JH
|author3-link=Jake H. Waskett
|last4=Wiswell
|init4=TE
|author4-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last5=Halperin
|init5=DT
|author5-link=Daniel T. Halperin
|etal=no
|title=Medicaid coverage of newborn circumcision: a health parity right of the poor
|journal=Am J Public Health
|date=2009-06
|volume=99
|issue=6
|pages=969-971
|pubmedID=19372502
|DOI=10.2105/AJPH.2009.161281
|accessdate=2019-10-22
}}</ref>


== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
{{Citation
{{Citation
| Title=Easy Money
|Title=Easy Money
| Text=I have some good friends who are obstetricians outside the military, and they look at a foreskin and almost see a $125 price tag on it. Each one is that much money. Heck, if you do 10 a week, that's over $1,000 a week, and they don't take that much time.
|Text=I have some good friends who are obstetricians outside the military, and they look at a [[foreskin]] and almost see a $125 price tag on it. Each one is that much money. Heck, if you do 10 a week, that's over $1,000 a week, and they don't take that much time.
| Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
|Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
| Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43
|Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p. 43
| lang=
}}
}}


{{SEEALSO}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Gilgal Society]] -- Wiswell associates with Gilgal.
* [[Gilgal Society]] -- Wiswell associates with Gilgal.
* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Daniel T. Halperin]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Daniel T. Halperin]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.


* [[United States of America]]
* [[Urinary tract infection]]
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