Circumcized men 70% less likely to contract HIV

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
Methinks Dr. Strangelove was trying to be a little humorous and or cynical/sarcastic simultaneously. It's the problem us older geeks have - we try to communicate with language, not smileys.

a guy goes by the name of Dr Strangelove for crying out loud, has a pic of Peter Sellars, wearing a Santa hat no less, and people dont immediately assume a cynical/sarcastic usage? Irony really IS dead, maybe.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


That clinched it for me

well, what do YOU use to make Motzi at a Seuda Mitzvah? A vegemite sandwich?

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Gibsie
Plus ten thumbs down for a Doctor who mocks "informed consent". I hope your patients know how little you care for that concept, Dr. Strangelove.

Who is mocking informed consent? In the 1950s and 1960s circumcisions were indeed routinely tacked on to obstetrical care, as was anesthesia. That's just the way it was.

Prospective studies require the random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups. Without random selection that type of study would be useless.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Who is mocking informed consent? In the 1950s and 1960s circumcisions were indeed routinely tacked on to obstetrical care, as was anesthesia. That's just the way it was.
Prospective studies require the random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups. Without random selection that type of study would be useless.

I think he's pissed about this bit. Dunno why though, it seems obvious it's humour.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Then some goody-goody two shoes lawyer got all huffy about "parent's rights" and "informed consent", so hospitals began to have to ask first. Finally some limp wristed pediatricians began protesting that the procedure was actually painful. A movement to prevent circumcision sprang up amongst the closet hippies, so today less than half the kids get the little "snip - snip".

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Well, if all you parents-to-be feel the evidence in favour is so compelling, then you have nothing to fear by allowing your sons to make an informed decision on the subject when they are capable of doing so, do you? I'm sure they'll agree with you and consent to the operation.

nah - for better or worse, inflicting permanent psychological and physical effects on your children is part of being a parent.

[SpencerH]

Amen.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


nah - for better or worse, inflicting permanent psychological and physical effects on your children is part of being a parent.

How true. How true.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Gibsie
Plus ten thumbs down for a Doctor who mocks "informed consent". I hope your patients know how little you care for that concept, Dr. Strangelove.

No ****. Not often I find the good doctor to be all wet, but this time he's seriously adrift.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Who is mocking informed consent? In the 1950s and 1960s circumcisions were indeed routinely tacked on to obstetrical care, as was anesthesia. That's just the way it was.

You seem to be.

In the late 50's my older brother got one of those 'routine' procedures. It didn't turn out well and my mother had the pleasant task of caring for an infant with a mutilated and infected member.

When it was my turn, you can bet she told them where to stuff the routine.

[Boris Godunov]

If there was ever a collection of men that I didn't want to see talking about their penises, this would be it.

[notyoueither]

[Commy]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
If there was ever a collection of men that I didn't want to see talking about their penises, this would be it.

Well, since we can't exactly verify anything, being on the web, there would really be no point...

For all you know, I'm bisexual, and I'm getting in touch with my feminine side right now...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
If there was ever a collection of men that I didn't want to see talking about their penises, this would be it.

It certainly turns your hormones off for awhile, doesn't it?

[Dis]

Originally posted by notyoueither


No ****. Not often I find the good doctor to be all wet, but this time he's seriously adrift.



You seem to be.

In the late 50's my older brother got one of those 'routine' procedures. It didn't turn out well and my mother had the pleasant task of caring for an infant with a mutilated and infected member.

When it was my turn, you can bet she told them where to stuff the routine.

it only seems to be the canadians that botch the procedure. Why is that? . Like that one guy who had a botched circumscision, and they turned him into a girl. You don't hear about stuff like that in the U.S. Must be that free medical care.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've heard stories like that in the US. There was one on 20/20 a few years back.

[notyoueither]

Really, Diss?

http://www.infocirc.org/cl032599.htm

Ian, now 4 years old, was a newborn Sept. 23, 1994, when Myers amputated the tip of the infant's penis during the routine procedure, which is generally performed for cultural, religious or hygienic reasons soon after birth.

Beyer said the impact of the injury would not be known for years.

The amputated tissue, which was preserved in a saline solution on ice, was reattached by Akron doctor Phillip Nasrallah after the boy was rushed to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron. But the ordeal left an ugly scar.