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'''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 that their behavior is impacted.<ref name="goldman1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman
|first=Ronald
}}</ref> <ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Boyle
|first=Gregory J. Boyle |author-link=Gregory J. Boyle
|last2=Goldman
|first2=Ronald
|author2-link=Ronald Goldman
|last3=Svoboda
|first3=J. Steven
|author3-link=J. Steven Svoboda
|last4=Fernandez
|first4=Ephrem
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=J Health PsychologyPsychol
|location=
|date=2002
|DOI=10.1177/135910530200700310
|accessdate=2020-03-16
}}</ref>
LeBourdais (1995) reports the [[circumcision]] status of the physician is a factor among others in determining if a baby is to be circumcised.<ref name="lebourdais1995">{{REFjournal
}}</ref>
[[Ronald Goldman|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"/>