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using template LanderJ etal 1997
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' features the late Dr. [[Paul Fleiss]]:
==Video==
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A new study found [[circumcision]] so traumatic that doctors ended the study early rather than subject any more babies to the operation without anesthesia.
"To say that the baby doesn't remember it is not an adequate excuse to me," he said. "Babies experience other painful procedures and we worry about that, and we do give them anesthetics for those procedures."
But the Edmonton researchers, whose study was published in this week's ''Journal of the American Medical Association'', studied the heart rates and crying patterns of babies during different stages of circumcision. Some babies were given an anesthetic and others were not.<ref name="lander1997">{{REFjournal |last=Lander |init=J |first=Janice |author-link=Janice Lander |last2=Brady-Frerer |init2=B |first2=Barbara |author2-link= |last3=Metcalfe |init3=JB |first3=James B. |author3-link= |last4=Nazerali |init4=S |first4=Shermin |author4-link= |last5=Muttit |init5=S |first5=Sarah |author5-link= |LanderJ etal=no |title= Comparison of ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and topical anesthesia for neonatal circumcision |journal=JAMA |location= |date=1997-12-24 |volume=278 |issue=24 |pages=2157-64 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/lander/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=9417009 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-11-07}}</ref>
=== Topicals woefully inadequate ===
They concluded that if [[circumcision]] must be performed, it should be preceded by an injected anesthetic.<ref name="lander1997" />
In fact, they found the results so compelling that they took the unusual step of stopping the study before it was scheduled to end rather than subjecting any more babies to circumcision without anesthesia.<ref name="lander1997" />
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* [[Pain]]
* [[Protection of intact newborns in hospital]]
* [[Trauma]]
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