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== Medical trade association statements regarding medical care ==
Medical trade associations occasionally usually issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade associations association's first duty is to protect and improve the income stream of its membership. This frequently creates a conflict of interest between the best interests of the patient and the best interests of the member doctors.
Such statements may are likely to exhibit considerable [[bias]] toward protection of physician income.<ref name="hill2017" />
== Statements regarding male circumcision ==
Some medical trade associations have published an advisory statement regarding male [[circumcision]]. Male circumcision invariably causes [[Trauma| psychic and physical trauma]] and loss of various [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions]]. When performed on an a newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements appear to have been vetted by their legal departmentsprior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.
Typically, the statements may:
* cite "potential" benefits of [[circumcision]], while failing to state ''potential'' means to exist in possibility, but not in actuality.
* omit a description of the [[foreskin]] and its [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual physiological functions]].
* omit an adequate description of the [[pain]] of circumcision of the newborn, lack information on the lack of effectiveness of available analgesic methods, but recommend the use of analgesia for circumcision.
* omit a description of the [[Trauma| physical and psychic trauma]] inherent in [[circumcision]].
* omit a real discussion of the [[human rights]] and medical ethics issues regarding non-therapeutic amputation of a functional body part from a non-consenting minor.
* omit a discussion of [[My_child,_my_choice#Illegal_consent| limitations on power of surrogate consent]]-
Statements that follow this formula offers advantages to a medical trade association:
* The absence of a an actual recommendation for circumcision allows the association to escape claims for damages.
* The absence of a condemnation of circumcision allows individual members to continue to profit from performing circumcisions.
Please see [[Position statements on infant circumcision]] for a discussion of individual statements.
==Legal issue==
Full disclosure of the [[pain]], physical and psychic [[trauma]], and loss of [https://en.intactiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Foreskin&action=edit§ion=8 physiological functions] caused by harmful and injurious [[circumcision]] would expose fellows/members to lawsuits for damages, so statements refrain from full disclosure of the harm and certain injury.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|author-link=Peter W. Adler
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|title=Is circumcision legal?
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|journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
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|date=2013
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|volume=16
|issue=3
|pages=439-86
|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi
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|accessdate=2024-12-10
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision study flaws]]
* [[Circumcision Is A Fraud: And The Coming Legal Reckoning]]
* [[State medical societies and associations]]
{{REF}}
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[[Category:Physicians]]
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