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|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
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| align="center" | '''Colleagues & Benefactors:'''
| align="center" | '''Colleagues & benefactors:'''
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| align="center" | [[Neil Pollock]]<br>[[Pierre Crouse]]<br>
| align="center" | [[Neil Pollock]]<br>[[Pierre Crouse]]<br>
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'''Murray Katz''' is a doctor whose primary business is the circumcision of children.
'''Murray Katz''' is a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]] whose primary business is the [[circumcision]] of children.
 
The [[Canadian Urological Association]] says "neonatal circumcision cannot be justified based
on the current evidence available."<ref name="cua2018">{{REFjournal
|last=Dave
|first=Sumit
|init=S
|author-link=
|last2=Afshar
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|init3=L
|author3-link=
|last4=Anderson
|first4=Peter
|init4=P
|author4-link=
|etal=no
|title=Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version)
|journal=Can Urol Assoc J
|location=
|date=2018-02
|volume=12
|issue=2
|pages=E76-99
|url=http://www.cua.org/themes/web/assets/files/5033_foreskin_guideline_longversion.pdf
|pubmedID=29381458
|pubmedCID=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc5937400/
|DOI=/10.5489/cuaj.5033
|accessdate=2020-07-07
}}</ref>


== Innovative technique ==
== Innovative technique ==


According to the National Post, Murray Katz collaborated with [[Neil Pollock]] on creating a so-called "new and innovative technique" for circumcision.<ref>{{REFnews
According to the ''National Post'', Murray Katz collaborated with [[Neil Pollock]] on creating a so-called "new and innovative technique" for [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFnews
  |last=Owens
  |last=Owens
  |first=Anne Marie
  |first=Anne Marie
|coauthors=
  |url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/npost.html
  |url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/npost.html
  |title=Like father, like son There is so much evidence for and against circumcision that making a decision has become almost impossible. In the end, most parents use family tradition or simply trust their instincts
  |title=Like father, like son There is so much evidence for and against circumcision that making a decision has become almost impossible. In the end, most parents use family tradition or simply trust their instincts
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  |work=National Post
  |work=National Post
  |quote=Dr. Neil Pollock, a Vancouver-area physician who is also a trained mohel designated to perform ritual Jewish circumcisions, has pioneered a technique with Dr. Murray Katz of Montreal using a four-step approach to pain relief and a piece of equipment that allows for a much quicker operation.
  |quote=Dr. Neil Pollock, a Vancouver-area physician who is also a trained mohel designated to perform ritual Jewish circumcisions, has pioneered a technique with Dr. Murray Katz of Montreal using a four-step approach to pain relief and a piece of equipment that allows for a much quicker operation.
  |date=22 Jan 2001
  |date=2001-01-22
  |accessdate=2012-10-07
  |accessdate=2012-10-07
}}</ref> On his website, however, Neil Pollock doesn't seem to offer Katz much credit, and takes most of it for himself.<ref>{{REFweb
}}</ref> On his website, however, Neil Pollock doesn't seem to offer Katz much credit, and takes most of it for himself.<ref>{{REFweb
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Closer inspection reveals that Pollock and Katz aren't doing anything "new"; on his website, Pollock reveals that he uses the Mogen technique, which involves the [[Mogen]] clamp.<ref>{{REFweb
Closer inspection reveals that Pollock and Katz aren't doing anything "new"; on his website, Pollock reveals that he uses the Mogen technique,<ref name="kaweblum1984">{{REFjournal
|last=Kaweblum
|first=Yosef
|init=Y
|author-link=
|last2=Press
|first2=Shirley
|init2=S
|author2-link=
|last3=Kogan
|first3=Leib
|init3=L
|author3-link=
|title=Circumcision using the mogen clamp
|journal=Clin Pediatr (Phila.)
|location=
|date=1984-12
|volume=23
|issue=
|pages=679-82
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mogen/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=6499347
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1177/000992288402301204
|accessdate=2020-08-06
}}</ref> which involves the [[Mogen]] clamp.<ref>{{REFweb
  |quote=The technique used by Dr. Pollock is called the Mogen technique.
  |quote=The technique used by Dr. Pollock is called the Mogen technique.
  |url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/circumcision-guide.html
  |url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/circumcision-guide.html
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  |last=Taeusch
  |last=Taeusch
  |first=H. William
  |first=H. William
  |coauthors=Alma M Martinez, J Colin Partridge, Susan Sniderman, Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, Elena Fuentes-Afflick
  |init=HW
  |title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Circumcision
|last2=Martinez
|first2=Alma M.
|init2=AM
|last3=Partridge
|first3=J. Colin
|init3=JC
|last4=Sniderman
|first4=Susan
|init4=S
|last5=Armstrong-Wells
|first5=Jennifer
|init5=J
|last6=Fuentes-Afflick
|first6=Elena
|init6=E
  |title=Pain During Mogen or Plastibell Circumcision
  |journal=Journal of Perinatology
  |journal=Journal of Perinatology
  |volume=22
  |volume=22
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  |pubmedCID=
  |pubmedCID=
  |DOI=
  |DOI=
  |date=April/May 2002
  |date=2002-04
|note=April/May 2002
  |accessdate=2011-04-08
  |accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<ref>{{REFnews
}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<ref name="tagami2011">{{REFnews
  |last=Tagami
  |last=Tagami
  |first=Ty
  |first=Ty
|coauthors=
  |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
  |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
  |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
  |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
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  |date=2010-07-19
  |date=2010-07-19
  |accessdate=2011-04-08
  |accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref>{{REFnews
}}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref name="tagami2011"/> after a mohel<ref name="tagami2011"/> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref name="tagami2011"/> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref name="tagami2011"/>
|last=Tagami
 
|first=Ty
In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref name="tagami2011"/> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref name="tagami2011"/>
|coauthors=
 
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
==Lack of third-party payment==
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
 
|publisher=
[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is not available in [[Canada]].<ref name="skeldon2008">{{REFdocument
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  |title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada
|quote=after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company.
  |url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/47498/2008_HMD_Skeldon.pdf?sequence=1
|date=2010-07-19
  |contribution=
|accessdate=2011-04-08
  |last=Skeldon
}}</ref> after a mohel<ref>{{REFnews
  |first=Sean
|last=Tagami
  |publisher=University of Calgary
|first=Ty
|format=PDF
|coauthors=
  |date=2008-03
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
  |accessdate=2022-06-30
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
|publisher=
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|quote=In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Tagami
|first=Ty
|coauthors=
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
|publisher=
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|quote=The baby in the current case, identified in court documents only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis ...
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Tagami
|first=Ty
|coauthors=
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
|publisher=
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|quote=The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use...
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Tagami
|first=Ty
  |coauthors=
  |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
  |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
  |publisher=
  |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  |quote=Attorney David Llewellyn won a similar case in Atlanta last year and the injury behind that prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court put the New York clamp manufacturer on notice about the danger of the device...
  |date=2010-07-19
  |accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews
{{SEEALSO}}
|last=Tagami
 
|first=Ty
* [[Bias]]
|coauthors=
* [[Canada]]
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
|publisher=
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|quote=Llewellyn won another circumcision case in 2009 over an operation at South Fulton Medical Center.
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Tagami
|first=Ty
|coauthors=
|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
|title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
|publisher=
|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|quote=The jury found that both the pediatrician and the physician who performed the circumcision were negligent, and awarded $2.3 million to the plaintiffs.
|date=2010-07-19
|accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref>


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