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|quote=Each year, an estimated 1.4 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. [[Intact America]] estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the [[trauma]] and lifelong consequences of the procedure. | |quote=Each year, an estimated 1.4 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. [[Intact America]] estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the [[trauma]] and lifelong consequences of the procedure. | ||
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Mansfield et al. (1995) studied the use of medical resources related to non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]]. They discovered that mother and baby remain in hospital an average of one-fourth of a day longer when the newborn boy is to be circumcised.<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal | |||
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|title=Neonatal circumcision: associated factors and length of hospital stay | |||
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|journal=J Fam Pract | |||
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|date=1995-10 | |||
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|pages=370-6 | |||
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mansfield/ | |||
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}}</ref> During this time, all room and other charges increase, so a circumcision is a real windfall for the hospital. Not only does the hospital collect a facility fee for the circumcision set up, it also gets to collect additional room and other charges. | |||
== Physicians == | == Physicians == | ||