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  |quote=Medical doctors in Australia, Canada, and the United States practiced circumcision in the twentieth century, so these nations have a heavy proportion of circumcised men, some of whom become medical doctors. These circumcised male doctors share the same bias in favor of male circumcision as do other circumcised males.7,31,43_Male doctors who were circumcised as infants are more likely to recommend circumcision of infants to parents.
  |quote=Medical doctors in Australia, Canada, and the United States practiced circumcision in the twentieth century, so these nations have a heavy proportion of circumcised men, some of whom become medical doctors. These circumcised male doctors share the same bias in favor of male circumcision as do other circumcised males. Male doctors who were circumcised as infants are more likely to recommend circumcision of infants to parents.
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[[Canada]] has turned away from its former practice of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. Medical societies call it obsolete, non-therapeutic and unnecessary. The Health Insurance Plans (HIPs) have not paid for non-therapeutic circumcision for decades, and most hospital no longer provide it. The incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has sharply declined, nevertheless, Heilman appears to continue to support non-therapeutic circumcision.
==Views on circumcision==


[[Canada]] has turned away from its former practice of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. Medical societies call it obsolete, non-therapeutic and unnecessary.<ref name="lebourdais1995">{{REFjournal
|last=LeBourdais
|first=Eleanor
|init=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision no longer a "routine" surgical procedure.
|journal=Can Med Assoc J
|location=
|date=1995
|volume=152
|issue=11
|pages=1873-6
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1337997/pdf/cmaj00071-0145.pdf
|quote=
|pubmedID=7773907
|pubmedCID=1337997
|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-07-29
}}</ref> The Health Insurance Plans (HIPs) have not paid for non-therapeutic circumcision for decades, and most hospitals no longer provide it. The incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has sharply declined, nevertheless, Heilman appears to continue to support non-therapeutic circumcision.


==Wikipedia==
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