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| ==== What Crouse may not tell parents about Mogen ==== | | ==== What Crouse may not tell parents about Mogen ==== |
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| Pollock and Crouse peddle the [[Mogen]] technique, but what they may not tell parents is that the Mogen clamp has been notorious for glans amputations, even among experienced conductors of circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal | | Pollock and Crouse peddle the [[Mogen]] technique, but what they may not tell parents is that the Mogen clamp has been notorious for glans amputations, even among experienced conductors of circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal|last=Taeusch |
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| |url=http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/v22/n3/full/7210653a.html | | |url=http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/v22/n3/full/7210653a.html |
| |quote=...approximately 10% of the glans of a newborn was amputated (it was reattached surgically) during a Mogen circumcision carried out by two of our most experienced physicians. | | |quote=...approximately 10% of the glans of a newborn was amputated (it was reattached surgically) during a Mogen circumcision carried out by two of our most experienced physicians.</ref> |
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| }}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref>{{REFnews | | }}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref name="tagami2011" /> after a ''mohel''<ref name="tagami2011" /> |
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| | severed the end of a baby's glans <ref name="tagami2011" /> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref name="tagami2011"/> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in [https://www.fultoncourt.org/ Fulton County Superior Court] had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref name="tagami2011"/> In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref name="tagami2011"/> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref name="tagami2011"/> |
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| |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html
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| |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
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| |quote=after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company.
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| }}</ref> after a mohel<ref>{{REFnews
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| |quote=In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home
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| }}</ref> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref>{{REFnews
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| |quote=The baby in the current case, identified in court documents only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis ...
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| }}</ref> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref>{{REFnews
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| |quote=The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use...
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| }}</ref> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref>{{REFnews
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| |title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision
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| |quote=Attorney David Llewellyn won a similar case in Atlanta last year and the injury behind that prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court put the New York clamp manufacturer on notice about the danger of the device...
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| }}</ref> In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews
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| |quote=Llewellyn won another circumcision case in 2009 over an operation at South Fulton Medical Center.
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| }}</ref> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref>{{REFnews
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| |quote=The jury found that both the pediatrician and the physician who performed the circumcision were negligent, and awarded $2.3 million to the plaintiffs.
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