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A '''medical trade association''' is an organization composed of medical doctors health care professionals who have united to advance their common professional trade, business, financial, and legal interests. <ref name="hill2017">{{REFjournal |last=Hill |first=George |init=G |author-link=George Hill |title=The case against circumcision |journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender |date=2007 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=318-323 |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912 |quote= |format=PDF |accessdate=2023-10-01}}</ref> Such organizations serve as labor unions for doctorshealth care professionals.
== General medical associations ==
Medical trade associations occasionally issue an opinion statement regarding medical care offered by their speciality. The public should be aware that the medical trade associations first duty is to protect and improve the income stream of its membership. This frequently creates a conflict of interest between the best interests of the patient and the best interests of the member doctors.
Such statements may exhibit considerable [[bias]] toward protection of physician income.<ref name="hill2017" />
== Statements regarding male circumcision ==
* omit an adequate description of the [[pain]] of circumcision of the newborn, lack information on the lack of effectiveness of available analgesic methods, but recommend the use of analgesia for circumcision.
* omit a description of the [[Trauma| physical and psychic trauma]] inherent in circumcision.
* omit a real discussion of the [[human rights ]] and medical ethics issues regarding non-therapeutic amputation of a functional body part from a non-consenting minor.
* omit a discussion of [[My_child,_my_choice#Illegal_consent| limitations on power of surrogate consent]]-
* omit an actual recommendation for [[circumcision]].
* attempt to shift responsibility and liability from the surgeon to the parents of the child.
Statements that follow this formula offers advantages to a medical trade association:
* The absence of a recommendation for circumcision allows the association to escape claims for damages.
* The absence of a condemnation of circumcision allows individual members to continue to profit from performing circumcisions.
Please see [[Position statements on infant circumcision]] for a discussion of individual statements.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision study flaws]]
* [[State medical societies and associations]] {{REF}}
[[Category:Medical society]]
[[Category:Physicians]]