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'''Jennifer Garza''' is a physician at the Valley Pediatrics in McAllen, Texas{{USSC|TX}}, USA. In 2011 she performed a [[circumcision ]] on a 4 -year -old child, leading to such severe [[complication| complications ]] that the child pleaded to "just cut it off and (he) can be a girl". <ref>{{REFweb | quote=A doctor botched a circumcision of a 4-year-old boy so badly that the boy pleaded to "just cut it off and (he) can be a girl," the parents claim in court. | url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/09/52144.htm | title=Circumcision Goes Horribly Wrong | last=De La Garza | first=Erik | publisher=Courthouse News Service | work= | date=2011-11-09 | accessdate=2012-11-10

On August 27th of 2012 the [[American Academy of Pediatricians Pediatrics]] (AAP) presented a new Policy Statement on Circumcision and Technical Report stating that "the benefits outweigh the risks", yet when it comes a complications like this one, the technical report states that "Financial costs of care, emotional tolls, or the need for future corrective surgery (with the attendant anesthetic risks, family stress, and expense) are unknown".<ref>{{REFjournal | last= | first= | coauthors= | title=Male Circumcision - Technical Report | journal=Pediatrics | volume=130 | issue=3 | pages=e775 | url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756.full | quote=Financial costs of care, emotional tolls, or the need for future corrective surgery (with the attendant anesthetic risks, family stress, and expense) are unknown. | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=August 27th, 2012-08-27 | accessdate=2012-11-12

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A graduate of the {{UNI|University of Texas Medical Branch |UTMB}} in Galveston, Dr. Garza completed her residencies of general surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, a program affiliated with {{UNI|Yale University |Yale}} School of Medicine, as well as St. {{UNI|Saint Louis University |SLU}} Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri {{USSC|MO}}, where she was also Administrative Chief Resident. Dr. Garza did two years of research at Children’s Hospital Boston (Harvard), where she participated in the development of a new technique for bowel lengthening and helped develop a new formulation for feeding children by vein who are not able to eat by mouth. Most recently, she completed her pediatric surgery fellowship at the [https://www.ouhealth.com/oklahoma-childrens-hospital/ Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma ] in Oklahoma City.<ref>{{REFweb | quote= | url=http://valleysurgery4kids.com/physicians/ | title=Meet Our Physician Dr. Jennifer Garza | last= | first= | publisher= | work= | date= | accessdate=2012-11-10

Rafael and Vanessa Deleon sued Dr. Jennifer J. Garza, of McAllen, in Hidalgo County Court. They claim that after a 90 minutes surgery, Dr. Garza told them there was some [[bleeding ]] but it had stopped, but then a nurse told Garza that the boy was still [[bleeding]], and he was taken to surgery a second time. Garza then told the parents that she stopped the [[bleeding ]] using cauterization.

The child stayed overnight at the hospital. The parents noticed his [[penis ]] oozed blood every time he urinated.

The following day they were released, and over the next days the parents noticed that when the child urinated there were two streams. He also kept [[bleeding]].

The referring doctor and a third doctor examined the child and were unable to explain the cause of the second stream. In the following days the child continued to be in [[pain ]] while urinating, refusing to drink anything, blaming the parents for his pain and asking to just have his penis cut off so he can be a girl. The parents had to change the sheets every night due to blood stains.

A week after the procedure, the parents took the child to the emergency room at [https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/rio-grande-regional-hospital Rio Grande Regional Hospital ] where Dr. Christopher Bristow told them "that the plaintiff's penis looked over cauterized." A urologist saw the child and he was prescribed morphine to sleep.

Five days later, a pediatric urologist told them that the child's [[urethra ]] is damaged. The circumcision surgery created [[Urethrocutaneous fistula| fistulas - holes in the child's penis]]. He told them that the child will need reconstructive surgery to repair the fistulas.

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