Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
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Another Example of the Groucho Marx Syndrome
- From Edgar J Schoen MD
By Edgar J. Schoen, MD - Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
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Dear Harpo
Your anecdote of the Groucho Marx Syndrome, in complaining about NOCIRC's anecdotes, illustrates you do have a fervent imagination. So do people who commit Munchausen behaviors. As a physician who treats children I am sure you have heard of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP). There is a lot of criminology literature about health care professionals (HCP) who commit MSBP. HCP's who do this set a false situation where they can then re-enter the scene as the Savior for attention and self-glorification. The patient is just a means to an end for their own ego gratification. These HCP's are Malignant Heroes. Circumcision is one example for medicine and elsewhere. Serial sexual predators are narcissistic - John Douglas FBI. Anyone who declares themselves the "#1 Expert" infers a touch of narcissism.
To continue your thread, you are as Harpo Marx who has really nothing important to say.
- DevilDocRetired
August 18, 2008 4:19PM
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Point to Dear Harpo
I actually like your attempt at humor, but your side smacks of Ad Hominems. Thus it allows sarcasm in response including serious perspectives. Milos, DOC, you and Dr. Morris are equally serious in your viewpoints. And as long as the headings remain, sarcasm is fair game.
This may be new to Opposing Views but not to the "Experts" on both sides. Blog after blog after blog. It's the SOS Different Day with each side pulling out medical articles from their respective file cabinets. After a while it gets kinda boring.
The real problem is that medicine cannot control the behavior of people and medicine seems to always turn to circumcision when it is presently confronted with a problem that overwhelms it.
- DevilDocRetired
August 18, 2008 9:51PM
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Missed the point
The main thrust of the rebuttal lies in the vaccine that exists for that cancer. No need to mutilate human beings for such an easily preventable disease.
- sonofwill
September 4, 2008 11:06PM
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