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These principles guide healthcare professionals in making ethical decisions in patient care. | These principles guide healthcare professionals in making ethical decisions in patient care. | ||
There are also a number of secondary principles of medical ethics that include: | |||
* Provision of futile, ineffective, or unnecessary treatment | |||
* Misuse of medical resources | |||
* Surrogate consent | |||
* Informed consent | |||
* Patient exploitation | |||
* Duties to child-patients | |||
* Preservation of the child’s right to an open future<ref>{{REFweb | |||
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/medical-ethics/ | |||
|title=Medical Ethics and the Non-therapeutic Circumcision of Male Children | |||
|last=Anonymous | |||
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|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision | |||
|date=2020-08 | |||
|accessdate=2025-06-30 | |||
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Male circumcisions are usually performed by medical doctors for profit, so the more specific principals of <b>medical ethics</b> or <b>bioethics</b> are applicable to the practice of [[circumcision]]. | Male circumcisions are usually performed by medical doctors for profit, so the more specific principals of <b>medical ethics</b> or <b>bioethics</b> are applicable to the practice of [[circumcision]]. | ||