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The AAFP headquarters address is:
The AAFP headquarters address is:


American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Family Physicians<br>
 
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway<br>
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
 
Leawood, KS 66211-268
Leawood, KS 66211-268


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  |quote=Capable of doing or being, although not yet in course of doing or being; possible, but not actual.
  |quote=Capable of doing or being, although not yet in course of doing or being; possible, but not actual.
}}</ref>  
}}</ref> The use of the word ''potential'' is likely to be very misleading to the public and especially to parents of infants boys, who are being asked to sacrifice the erogenous [[foreskin]] part of their infant boy's [[penis]], for claimed, unproved speculative allegation of benefit.
 
The major benefit claimed is prevention of urinary tract infection (UTI), however UTI is easily and satisfactorily treated with antibiotics, in the unlikely event it should occur.<ref name="mccracken1989">{{REFjournal
|last=McCracken, Jr.
|first=George
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Options in antimicrobial management of urinary tract infections in infants and children
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Pediatr Infect Dis J
|location=
|date=1989-08
|volume=8
|issue=8
|pages=552-5
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/mccracken/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=2771540
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1097/00006454-198908000-00041
|accessdate=2020-04-18
}}</ref> The AAFP fails to inform parents of this conservative and satisfactory treatment. Singh-Grewal ''et al''. (2005) report 111 circumcisions would be necessary to prevent one UTI. Circumcision is recommended only in cases of recurrent UTI. the authors point out that the rate of complications of circumcision exceeds the rate of prevention of UTI, so there is no net benefit from neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Singh-Grewal
|first=Davinder
|author-link=
|last2=Macdessi
|first2=Joseph
|author2-link=
|last3=Craig
|first3=Jonathan
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision for the prevention of urinary tract infection in boys: A systematic review of randomized trials and observational studies
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Arch Dis Child
|location=
|date=2005
|volume=90
|issue=8
|pages=853-8
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1720543/pdf/v090p00853.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=15890696
|pubmedCID=15890696
|DOI=10.1136/adc.2004.049353
|accessdate=2010-04-18
}}</ref>
 
The AAFP does not tell the public that [[fatalities]] and very serious injuries such as the loss of the penis are possible.


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{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
* {{REFweb
  |url=https://www.aafp.org/home.html
  |url=https://www.aafp.org/home.html
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  |accessdate=2019-12-10
  |accessdate=2019-12-10
}}
}}
{{REF}}
* {{REFweb
* {{REFweb
  |url=https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/neonatal-circumcision.html
  |url=https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/neonatal-circumcision.html
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