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The Committee on Bioethics seeks to modify surrogate consent in pediatric medicine to granting of "informed permission" with assent by the child when appropriate. ~~Thesestatements~~ address consent for treatment of disease in pediatric patients, however they have relatively little to say about non-therapeutic procedures such as [[circumcision of the newborn]]. The 1995 statement did say:

The Committee on Bioethics seeks to modify surrogate consent in pediatric medicine to granting of "informed permission" with assent by the child when appropriate. These statements address consent for treatment of disease in pediatric patients, however they have relatively little to say about non-therapeutic procedures such as [[circumcision of the newborn]]. The 1995 statement did say:

Such providers have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses. Although impasses regarding the interests of minors and the expressed wishes of their parents or guardians are rare, the pediatrician's responsibilities to his or her patient exist independent of parental desires or proxy consent.<ref name="bioethics1995" />

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-The Committee on Bioethics seeks to modify surrogate consent in pediatric medicine to granting of "informed permission" with assent by the child when appropriate. Thesestatements address consent for treatment of disease in pediatric patients, however they have relatively little to say about non-therapeutic procedures such as [[circumcision of the newborn]]. The 1995 statement did say:
+The Committee on Bioethics seeks to modify surrogate consent in pediatric medicine to granting of "informed permission" with assent by the child when appropriate. These statements address consent for treatment of disease in pediatric patients, however they have relatively little to say about non-therapeutic procedures such as [[circumcision of the newborn]]. The 1995 statement did say:
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 Such providers have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses. Although impasses regarding the interests of minors and the expressed wishes of their parents or guardians are rare, the pediatrician's responsibilities to his or her patient exist independent of parental desires or proxy consent.<ref name="bioethics1995" />