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Resources for healthcare providers
Medical practice evolves as new discoveries are made. Whatever your role, you are in a position to change how the next generation is cared for.
Physicians
- Medical practices change over time as new discoveries are made. Many are now reporting adverse events, and there is new research on infant pain.
- Learn about the role of the foreskin in the human body.
- Connect with physicians who abstain from performing circumcisions.
- Learn about adult men who complain of harm from their circumcision.
- Confront your own bias — your problem-free circumcision doesn't mean it's good for everyone.
- You don't have the right based on human rights principles.
- Protect yourself against future litigation by stopping now.
- If suffering regret, you can heal by getting involved in activism and helping others.
Nurses
- Connect with physician and nurse voices who abstain.
- Nurses are on the vanguard of change in this area.
- You don't have the right based on human rights principles.
- You can heal by getting involved in activism and helping others.
Midwives and Doulas
- Connect with healthcare professionals who abstain.
- Midwives and doulas are on the vanguard of change in this area.
- You don't have the right based on human rights — it's not the mother's right either.
- You can heal by getting involved in activism and helping others.
- Download info sheets or get brochures to distribute to teach parents.
Medical Students
- Medical students are in a special position — at the start of careers and in learning mode where inquiry and questioning is normal.
- Learn about your options to opt out of circumcisions for your career.
- Connect with physician voices who abstain.
- Learn about the history of circumcision.
- You can decide before your career starts to abstain.
- Protect yourself from future litigation.
- Medical students are the hope for change.
Hospital Administrators & Risk Managers
- Consult with lawyers and ethicists who recommend against the practice.
- Learn about other hospitals that are no longer offering the procedure.
- Connect with physician voices who abstain.
- Understand legal arguments against non-medically necessary procedures being solicited.
- Protect your organization against future litigation — act earlier rather than later.
- Consider not soliciting or offering the procedure.
- Download info sheets or brochures to post in the hospital or distribute to staff.
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