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==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==
==Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine==
The four tenets of osteopathic medicine provide for treatment and well-being of the whole person. Allopathic medicine has nothing comparable.<ref>{{REFweb
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===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===
===1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind and spirit.===
The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
The harmful, adverse effects of [[circumcision]] upon the human person had, until recently, been ignored for many decades. Now there is increasing evidence of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], and disability caused by [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]] portion of the [[penis]] upon the [[Sexual injury of circumcision| sexual]] and [[Psychological injury of male circumcision| psychological]] well-being of the human person.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
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==PFFR in West Virginia==
==PFFR in West Virginia==
Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.
Parents of a boy in West Virginia have alleged that an osteopathic physician prematurely forcibly retracted the healthy [[Foreskin#Foreskin_in_infancy_and_childhoo| foreskin of a boy]], causing great [[trauma]], [[pain]], and destructive injury to the [[synechia]] that secures the protective [[foreskin]] in place. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] assisted the parents in the filing of a complaint against the osteopathic physician.