Taboo subject for medical professionals

[baybee]

I found this information on the cirp site:
http://nurses.cirp.org/R.N._Conscientious_Objecto.html

exerpt:<<Routine neonatal circumcision is a controversial procedure which, more than most other surgical or medical procedures, elicits powerful emotional reactions. Because it involves questions of sexuality and the penis, it exists in the realm of taboo, even among healthcare professionals.

In addition, the performance of an irreversible surgical amputation in the absence of medical indications on an unconsenting minor raises serious ethical questions. The human-rights violation of forced genital excision of unconsenting minors has been amply demonstrated in medical and legal literature.

At the annual 1994 meeting of the Registered Nurses' Association of British Columbia, nurse delegates voted not to allow routine neonatal circumcision to be discussed by nurses because it was judged to be too controversial. But following this vote, media coverage and a subsequent educational and consciousness raising campaign by nurses confronted the taboos associated with the procedure. The following year, at the 1995 RNABC convention, the province's registered nurses passed a resolution condemning routine circumcision.>>

[~Kira~]

WOW!


How did I not know that? I wonder where the actual text of their resolution might be? Any way we can get it....



Off to Google....

[baybee]

Too funny, Kira, I had exactly the same reaction! there's nothing much more online about it but I did write an mail to the RNABC (actually they are now knows as the College of Regist'd Nurses of BC CRNBC) and asked them to send me the policy statement.

Baybee

[baybee]

from an RN in Texas:
I have seen many circ revisions: there is a condition caller TUNNELING where
the shaft skin grows to the edge of the glans... many times I have seen
partially or fully denuded shafts. Two weeks ago we had to transfer a baby to
another hospital for excessive bleeding- they replaced 100cc of blood. In a
neonate that is considerable!
It is an unnecessary risk in my opinion, to assuage cultural norms. The USA
is the only country clinging to this practice any way. When it became a self-
pay issue in Canada, the rate plummeted.
And on a lighter note. they ALL look the same when they are HAPPY!
RNc
Texas

[DocsNemesis]

I like that statement. I remember reading a docs statement about how he had "just last week done a circumcision and was surprised when he took the clamp off, the skin just fell down the shaft." He said he just pulled it back up and sewed it in place, no big deal. Yeah, I'm sure the baby didnt mind! No big deal my butt!