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|volume=6
|pages=69-77
}}</ref> This suggests that doctors are very well aware that [[circumcision ]] is a non-therapeutic surgery (in short, a ritual); but they do not appear to share this knowledge with parents.
A busy physician can supplement their income by as much as $60,000 per year from circumcision surgeries alone.<ref>{{REFbook
}}</ref> This [[Financial Incentive| incentive]] can cloud a physician’s judgment when it comes to providing parents with information about circumcision.
Many [[circumcised ]] men, some of whom are [[Circumcised doctors|doctors]], experience a strong denial of loss which in turn fuels an emotional compulsion to repeat the [[trauma ]] to normalize their loss.
<ref>{{VanderKolkBA 1989}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman