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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' with a non-retractile [[foreskin]] in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] frequently presents unique issues caused by the poor training and lack of knowledge of North American health care providers, who do not know how to insert a catheter when the boy has an [[intact]] foreskin. Such providers may attempt premature [[forced foreskin retraction]] to the harm of the boy or even demand that the boy be [[circumcised]] to permit catheter insertion.
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' with a non-retractile [[foreskin]] in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] frequently presents unique issues caused by the poor training and lack of knowledge of North American health care providers, who do not know how to insert a catheter when the boy has an [[intact]] foreskin. Such providers may attempt premature [[forced foreskin retraction]] to the harm of the boy or even demand that the boy be [[circumcised]] to permit catheter insertion.


This problem does not occur in other advanced nations where health care providers are trained in the care of [[intact]] boys.
This problem does not occur in other advanced nations where health care providers are properly trained in the care of [[intact]] boys.
 
Carmack & Milos (2017) identified the issue with intact boys and provided all necessary information on the technique of installing a catheter in an intact boy.<ref name="carmack2017">{{REFjournal
|last=Carmack
|first=Adrienne
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Milos
|first2=Marlilyn F.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Catheterization without foreskin retraction
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|journal=Can Fam Physician
|location=
|date=2017-03
|volume=63
|issue=3
|pages=218-220
|url=
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=28292801
|pubmedCID=5349724
|DOI=
|accessdate=
}}</ref>


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