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== Medical trade association statements regarding medical care ==

Medical trade associations ~~occasionally~~ issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade ~~associations~~ 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.

Medical trade associations usually issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade 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~~ exhibit considerable [[bias]] toward protection of physician income.<ref name="hill2017" />

Such statements 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 newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements to have been vetted by their legal departments prior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.

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 a newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements to have been vetted by their legal departments prior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.

Typically, the statements may:

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Statements that follow this formula offers advantages to a medical trade association:

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

* The absence of 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.

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==Legal issue==

Full disclosure of the pain, physical and psychic trauma, and loss of physiological ~~function~~ caused by harmful [[circumcision]] would expose fellows/members to lawsuits for damages so statements refrain from full disclosure of the harm and certain injury.<ref>{{REFjournal

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 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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 == Medical trade association statements regarding medical care ==
-Medical trade associations occasionally issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade associations 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.
+Medical trade associations usually issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade 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 exhibit considerable [[bias]] toward protection of physician income.<ref name="hill2017" />
+Such statements 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 newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements to have been vetted by their legal departments prior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.
+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 a newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements to have been vetted by their legal departments prior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.
 Typically, the statements may:
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 Statements that follow this formula offers advantages to a medical trade association:
-* The absence of a recommendation for circumcision allows the association to escape claims for damages.
+* The absence of 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.
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 ==Legal issue==
-Full disclosure of the pain, physical and psychic trauma, and loss of physiological function caused by harmful [[circumcision]] would expose fellows/members to lawsuits for damages so statements refrain from full disclosure of the harm and certain injury.<ref>{{REFjournal
+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 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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