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==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine== | ==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine== | ||
The four tenets of osteopathic medicine provide for treatment and well-being of the whole person. Allopathic medicine has nothing comparable.<ref>{{REFweb | |||
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===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.=== | ===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.=== | ||
The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal | The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal | ||
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According to [[Alice Miller]]: | |||
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"If we do not work on all three levels — body, feeling, mind — the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood." ~ Alice Miller<ref>{{REFweb | |||
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===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.=== | ===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.=== | ||
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}}</ref> [[Forced foreskin retraction]] is harmful | }}</ref> [[Forced foreskin retraction]] is harmful, [[trauma| traumatic]], painful, injurious, inappropriate, and inconsistent with the tenets of osteopathic medicine. The practice frequently generates a parental complaint of gratuitous clinical injury filed with state and federal medical authorities. ([[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] offers a free service to help parents file complaints.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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}}</ref> <ref name="andersen2025" | }}</ref> <ref name="andersen2025" /> Boys are unable to grant consent due to their immaturity. Parental surrrogates must protect the interest and rights of the child patient. They are limited to granting [[surrogate consent]] for diagnosis and treatment of disease. There is no person who is empowered to grant consent for non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] of a minor.<ref name="hill2002">{{REFjournal | ||
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}}</ref> While there are no reports of | }}</ref> While there are no reports of an American provider being criminally charged, in the [[United Kingdom]] Dr. [[Mohammad Siddiqui]] has been struck off the Medical Register and has been criminally charged by the Crown Prosecution Service. The changing view of [[child circumcision]] has altered the atmosphere around [[child circumcision]], so a criminal charge may now be more likely than in the past. | ||
It is more likely that a parent would bring a civil suit for injury caused by [[wrongful circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal | It is more likely that a parent would bring a civil suit for injury caused by [[wrongful circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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==PFFR in West Virginia== | ==PFFR in West Virginia== | ||
Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician. | Parents of a boy in [[West Virginia]] have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician. | ||
If true, then the osteopathic physician would appear to have violated the Second Tenet of Osteopathic Medicine. | If true, then the osteopathic physician would appear to have violated the Second Tenet of Osteopathic Medicine. | ||
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* [[Forced foreskin retraction]] | * [[Forced foreskin retraction]] | ||
* [[ICCPR]] | * [[ICCPR]] | ||
* [[Intactness]] | |||
* [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]] | * [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]] | ||
* [[United States of America]] | * [[United States of America]] | ||