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{{Construction Site}}[[File:Jean-Marie Huot.jpg|thumb|Jean-Marie Huot]]The late '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D. {{MD}}, ({{LifeData |birth=1918-06-26 |birthplace= |birthcountry= |death=2009-01-31}}), was a general practitioner in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [[Canada]].== The case of Bruce and Brian Reimer ==The [[foreskin]] of healthy infant boys normally is developmentally non-retractable.<ref name="gairdner1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</ref>
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Dr. Huot examined six-month-old twin boys Bruce and Brian Reimer. He mis-diagnosed their healthy, developmentally non-retractable [[foreskin]] as ''[[phimosis]]''. The twin boys were scheduled for [[circumcision]] — excision and [[amputation]] of the foreskin — at the age of eight-months.
Bruce was the first born of the two, so he was scheduled first. Dr. Huot inexplicably chose to use an electrocautery device to perform the medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision. The electric current so burned Bruce's [[penis]] that it was destroyed.
Brian's circumcision was cancelled after the disaster with Bruce's circumcision and never performed. Brian's foreskin later spontaneously become retractable.
Brian and Bruce/David both committed suicide.
== Postscript ==
Bruce Reimer later changed his name to David Reimer.
Dr. Huot retired from medical practice in 1992.
Dr. Jean-Marie Huot is remembered as the physician who performed a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1966 on eight-month-old [[David Reimer]] with an electrocautery device and destroyed David's [[penis]].
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Berto Lopez, M.D.]]
* [[Canada]]
* [[David_Reimer]]
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-146118
|title=Dr. Jean-Marie Huot
|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press
|date=2009-02-05
|accessdate=2023-03-12
}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huot Jean-Marie}}
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