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}}</ref> Pollock claims to have created this "new method" with another serial circumciser, [[Murray Katz]]. <ref>{{REFnews
| last=Owens | first=Anne Marie | coauthors= | url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/npost.html | title=Like father, like son There is so much evidence for and against circumcision that making a decision has become almost impossible. In the end, most parents use family tradition or simply trust their instincts | publisher= | website=National Post | quote=Dr. Neil Pollock, a Vancouver-area physician who is also a trained mohel designated to perform ritual Jewish circumcisions, has pioneered a technique with Dr. Murray Katz of Montreal using a four-step approach to pain relief and a piece of equipment that allows for a much quicker operation. | date=22 Jan 2001 | accessdate=2012-10-07
}}</ref> Pollock's website uses language that suggests that he uses state-of-the-art techniques and equipment that no other surgeon possesses, by warning against others who try to "emulate" him.<ref>{{REFweb
| quote=You may notice other local websites, desperately attempting to emulate Dr.Pollock both in name of website and content. Please be clear when researching your son's circumcision, that the methods and techniques for providing this surgery are only as meaningful as the operating physician's experience, without which, any method or technique is potentially dangerous.
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}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=The company is going out of business, according to a woman who answered the phone at its Brooklyn headquarters Monday. | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=...after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company. | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> after a mohel<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home... | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=The baby in the current case, identified in court documents only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis ... | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use... | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> The injury behind a prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court had already put Mogen on notice about the danger of the device.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=Attorney David Llewellyn won a similar case in Atlanta last year and the injury behind that prior lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court put the New York clamp manufacturer on notice about the danger of the device... | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref>
In a different case, at South Fulton Medical Center, another law suit was won in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=Llewellyn won another circumcision case in 2009 over an operation at South Fulton Medical Center. | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> In that case, a child lost a third of his glans, and the plaintiffs were awarded 2.3 million dollars.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami | first=Ty | coauthors= | url=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/atlanta-lawyer-wins-11-573890.html | title=Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision | publisher= | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | quote=The jury found that both the pediatrician and the physician who performed the circumcision were negligent, and awarded $2.3 million to the plaintiffs. | date=2010-07-19 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref>
According to Jewish Independent, Pollock claims to "have developed a technique to do circumcision in this older age group under local anesthetic without using sutures and using, instead, a cyanocrylate skin glue that closes the wound." Pollock claims that this provides for a "simpler, easier, quicker, safer and improved cosmetic outcome for patients.", claims that have not been substantiated.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Laye | first=Baysa | coauthors= | url=http://www.jewishindependent.ca/vancouver-doctor-will-train-doctors-in-haiti-in-circumcision/ | title=Vancouver doctor will train physicians in Haiti in circumcision | publisher= | work= | quote= | date=04th, April 2014-04-04 | accessdate=2014-07-11
}}</ref>
On Feb 24, 2009, Pollock Clinics issued a press release stating that Neil Pollock was asked to go to Rwanda by the British Columbia Centere for Disease Control (BCCDC) and Family Health International (FHI),<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Dr. Pollock travelled as part of a team assembled by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and their partner in the project, Family Health International (FHI). | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> as part of a team on a "fact finding mission." He was asked by David Patrick, then Head of Epidemiology at the BCCDC.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Dr. Pollock decided to travel to the region after he was asked by Dr. David Patrick, Head of Epidemiology at the BCCDC, to join their fact-finding mission to the rapidly developing country. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> The mission was supposed to consult with the Rwandan healthcare system involved in the fight against AIDS,<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=The mission was a team effort to consult widely with everyone in the Rwandan health care system involved in the fight against AIDS (from major players in the Ministry of Health, to front-line workers, to people living with HIV). | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> but Pollock took advantage of the trip to promote infant circumcision specifically.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=In anticipation of his trip, Dr. Pollock contacted Rwandan doctors and inquired as to why, given the correlation between circumcision and AIDS prevention, and the increasing number of adult circumcisions being carried out, so few infant circumcisions were being performed in that country. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> Upon being told that few parents were having their children circumcised because the procedures were being performed with scissors and stitches, without adequate anaesthetic and were taking around 30 minutes to complete,<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=They told me that very few parents were having their children circumcised because the procedures were being performed with scissors and stitches, without adequate anaesthetic and were taking around 30 minutes to complete... | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> he took the opportunity to promote the [[Mogen]] infant circumcision procedure under the guise of "HIV prevention."<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Vancouver-based circumcision and vasectomy surgeon, Dr. Neil Pollock, recently returned from a 10 day mission to sub-Saharan Africa where he taught Rwandan doctors proper infant circumcision technique to help them stem the spread of AIDS in the region. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Dr. Pollock, who has performed what is arguably the world's oldest surgical procedure over 30,000 times, spent four days in December at the King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, teaching the hospital's chief surgeons his <q>Mogen</q> infant circumcision technique. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref>
As in Canada, Pollock sold the [[Mogen]] technique as "bloodless, painless, and taking only 30 seconds."<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=I offered to go and teach them how to perform the procedure in a safer, quicker and less painful way and they happily took me up on the offer. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=The technique, named after the specialized tool used in the procedure, is a virtually painless and bloodless method which takes less than a minute to perform. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> He took advantage of the AIDS crisis, and the fact that the [[WHO]]/[[UNAIDS]] had endorsed circumcision as legitimate HIV prevention to promote specifically infant circumcision, and his "simple and painless procedure" (AKA, the [[Mogen]] technique).<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=When a relatively simple and painless procedure exists that can so dramatically reduce one's chances of contracting AIDS, it seemed tragic that the local doctors in Rwanda were not properly trained to use it... | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> Pollock admits that he hopes his "technique" would encourage more Rwandan parents to have their children circumcised, albeit for the pretext of HIV prevention.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Pollock, whose research into infant circumcision has been published internationally, hopes that the proper technique will encourage more Rwandan parents to have their sons circumcised. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> With the help of his friends and family, he raised funds to buy Mogen clamps and other needed equipment to set up an infant circumcision clinic in Rwanda.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=Dr. Pollock, through the support of friends and family, raised the funds required to purchase and deliver multiple sets of equipment and supplies that would allow Rwandan surgeons to set up and operate an infant circumcision clinic once he left. | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> Pollock was largely instrumental in making infant circumcision a priority for the Rwandan Ministry of Health in the fight against AIDS. <ref>{{REFnews
| last=N. Michael | first=Millman | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=At the end of Dr. Pollock's visit, the Rwandan Ministry of Health announced they were making infant circumcision a priority in their fight against AIDS, as they found it to be more sustainable in the long run and ten times cheaper than adult circumcision(v). | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> The medical tour was covered by grant money from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and funding from the [[Shusterman Foundation]].<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | publisher= | workwebsite=marketwire | quote=...much of the trip's cost was covered by grant money from Canadian Institutes of Health Research and funding from the Shusterman Foundation... | date=2009-02-24 | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref>
Pollock also took the opportunity to promote his vasectomy knowledge while he was in Rwanda.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Millman | first=N. Michael | coauthors= | url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm | title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids | date=2009-02-24 | publisherwebsite=marketwire | quote=Dr. Pollock also presented a talk to local vasectomy surgeons. He hopes to return with a team to the region on a second teaching mission to instruct local doctors on his No-Scalpel No-Needle vasectomy procedure, a virtually painless technique lasting less than six minutes, which he performs approximately 2,000 times a year in his Vancouver and New Westminster clinics. | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref>
Pollock said. “It’s intended that Haiti will become a training centre for circumcision in the Caribbean. It is likely that my technique, once taught in Haiti, will soon be shared with multiple countries throughout the Caribbean, multiplying its effect to save lives throughout the entire region.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Laye | first=Baysa | coauthors= | url=http://www.jewishindependent.ca/vancouver-doctor-will-train-doctors-in-haiti-in-circumcision/ | title= Vancouver doctor will train physicians in Haiti in circumcisio | date=04th, April 2014-04-04 | publisher= | quote= | accessdate=2014-07-11
}}</ref>