Circumcised doctors

Circumcised doctors are male doctors who were circumcised as infants, so they lack any personal knowledge and experience of a normal male body part – the foreskin or a complete, functional penis.

Goldman (1999) and Boyle et al. report that circumcision is traumatic, so one may expect that circumcised doctors experienced trauma and their behavior is impacted.

Goldman (1999) reports circumcised doctors will write papers to support non-therapeutic circumcision: {{Citation

|Text=One reason that flawed studies are published is that science is affected by cultural values. A principal method of preserving cultural values is to disguise them as truths that are based on scientific research. This 'research' can then be used to support questionable and harmful cultural values such as circumcision. This explains the claimed medical 'benefits' of circumcision.<ref name="goldman1999">

See also

• Adamant father syndrome
• Bias