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Adult candidates for surgery are required to have a work-up to determine their suitability for surgery, however infant boys do not receive the same consideration. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] long has stated that [[circumcision]] should only be performed when the infant boy is "stable and healthy", <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Schoen |first= |init=EJ |author-link= |last2=Anderson |first2= |init2=G |author2-link= |last3=Bohon |first3= |init3=C |author3-link= |last4=Hinman |first4= |init4=F |author4-link= |last5=Poland |first5= |init5=RL |author5-link= |last6=Wakeman |first6= |init6=EM |author6-link= |etal=no |title=Report of the Task Force on Circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=1989 |season= |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=388-91 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=2664697 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2024-07-27}}</ref> but nothing is done to verify the suitability of the infant to withstand [[pain| painful]], [[trauma| traumatic]] surgery. Infant boys are not even given a blood-clotting test prior to the cutting, so there are cases in which the bleeding disorder is discovered only on the operating table.
Baby Matthew was not a candidate for surgery, however he had it anyway.
<i>Medical doctors in the [[United States]] are paid on a fee-for-service basis, so the more services the doctor performs, the greater is the [[Financial incentive| fee]] that he earns.</i>
<i>Introduction of modern precautions, such as ultrasound or EKG testing, have not been introduced because that would destroy the profit that drives the practice of circumcision in America, so the American practice remains much as the ancient rabbis dictated with the same degree of [[pain]] and , [[trauma]]and loss of function.</i>
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