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Weiss joined the United States Army as an aviation medical officer in 1945. Later he practiced medicine for about 25 years as a general surgeon in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Later he joined the [https://www.airforce.com/ United States Air Force] as a Flight Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
As with many other [[circumcised doctors]], Weiss was an advocate of child [[circumcision]].Weiss et al. (1993) proposed that the [[Langerhans cells]] in the [[prepuce]] may serve as a portal of entry for [[HIV]] infection.<ref name="weiss1993">{{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first=Gerald N. |init=GN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |last2=Sanders |first2= |init2=M |author2-link= |last3=Westbrook |first3= |init3=KC |author3-link= |etal=no |title=The distribution and density of Langerhans cells in the human prepuce: site of a diminished immune response? |journal= Isr J Med Sci |location= |date=1993-01 |volume=20 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=42-3 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=8454447 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-10-28}}</ref>
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