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wikify Informed consent
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}}</ref>). These complications have important physical, emotional, and financial costs and should not be trivialized. Unfortunately, a comprehensive discussion of these [[Risks and complications|risks]] is not typically included during the [[informed consent ]] process.
Finally, I am appalled that a reputable medical organization would condone the [[Routine Infant Circumcision|forced alteration of a child's genitals]], especially since girls have been appropriately been legally protected from this for many years now. Deciding how one's genitals appear and function is one of the most intimate decisions possible. I know literally hundreds of men who resent being circumcised, many of which are plagued by [[Psychological issues of male circumcision|chronic problems from their circumcision]]. The only person to choose circumcision or any other cosmetic procedure should be the owner of that body. Physicians have no business performing painful, unnecessary procedures on non-consenting patients.