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The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, or urology. | The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, or urology. | ||
== Medical journals == | == Medical journals == | ||
Medical journals are mostly those journals which focus on obstetrics, pediatrics, family practice, or urology and publish biased articles to promote the practice and to secure third-party insurance coverage of the medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgery. | Medical journals are mostly those journals which focus on obstetrics, pediatrics, family practice, or urology and publish biased articles to promote the practice<ref name="fleiss1999">{{REFbook | ||
|last=Fleiss | |||
|first=Paul M. | |||
|init=PM | |||
|author-link=Paul M. Fleiss | |||
|year=1999 | |||
|title=An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature | |||
|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ljZZ9ZvD_kQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA379&ots=GA2KpzMECk&sig=jFqDYQhV0sqAWil6LDZWXnQdJO8#v=onepage&q&f=false | |||
|work=Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice | |||
|editor=Denniston, George C., Hodges, Frederick Mansfield, Milos, Marilyn | |||
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|volume= | |||
|chapter= | |||
|pages=379-401 | |||
|location=New York | |||
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers | |||
|isbn=0-306-46131-5 | |||
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|accessdate=2023-11-12 | |||
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}}</ref> and to secure third-party insurance coverage of the medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgery. | |||
==Profits== | ==Profits== | ||
The profits are amazingly large. Bollinger (2012) estimated annual intake from the performance of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision to be $$3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb | The profits are amazingly large. Bollinger (2012) estimated annual intake from the performance of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision to be $$3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb | ||