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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" />

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.

* The absence of a an actual recommendation for circumcision allows the association to escape claims for damages.

Full disclosure of the [[pain]], physical and psychic [[trauma]], and loss of [https://en.intactiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Foreskin&action=edit&section=8 physiological function 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