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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the term used to identify the collection of American medical trade associations, state medical societies, hospitals, and physicians that promote medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic male [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]], and who financially profit from the performance thereof.
== Medical trade associations ==
The [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] are primarily the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Urological Association.
== State medical societies ==
State medical societies work behind the scenes within their own state to remove any impediments to the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision and to maintain insurance coverage
== Hospitals ==
Hospitals promote and profit from the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic practice, by allowing its practice, by automatically providing a circumcision consent form in the package of forms provided to an expectant mother in labor on admission, by directing nurses to repeatedly inquire of mothers if a [[circumcision]] is desired.
== Physicians==
The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, o0 urology.
==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
|url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually
|title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually
|last=Bollinger
|first=Dan
|author-link=Dan Bollinger
|publisher=Academia
|website=https://www.academia.edu
|date=2012
|accessdate=2023-11-12
|format=
|quote=As the saying goes, follow the money. Now you know why neither the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], American Medical Association, [[American Academy of Family Physicians]], or the [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] haven’t condemned this unnecessary surgery, and why their physician members are quick to recommend the procedure to expectant parents.
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
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[[Category:USA]]
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the term used to identify the collection of American medical trade associations, state medical societies, hospitals, and physicians that promote medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic male [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]], and who financially profit from the performance thereof.
== Medical trade associations ==
The [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] are primarily the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Urological Association.
== State medical societies ==
State medical societies work behind the scenes within their own state to remove any impediments to the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision and to maintain insurance coverage
== Hospitals ==
Hospitals promote and profit from the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic practice, by allowing its practice, by automatically providing a circumcision consent form in the package of forms provided to an expectant mother in labor on admission, by directing nurses to repeatedly inquire of mothers if a [[circumcision]] is desired.
== Physicians==
The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, o0 urology.
==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
|url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually
|title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually
|last=Bollinger
|first=Dan
|author-link=Dan Bollinger
|publisher=Academia
|website=https://www.academia.edu
|date=2012
|accessdate=2023-11-12
|format=
|quote=As the saying goes, follow the money. Now you know why neither the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], American Medical Association, [[American Academy of Family Physicians]], or the [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] haven’t condemned this unnecessary surgery, and why their physician members are quick to recommend the procedure to expectant parents.
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
[[Category:Term]]
[[Category:USA]]