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Why and how a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology stopped doing routine newborn male circumcision.

Johnson TR, Pituch K, Brackbill EL, Wan J, van de Ven C, Pearlman MD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospitalist Service, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. trbj@umich.edu

In 2004, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan decided to stop offering routine circumcision for specialty and disciplinary, logistic, and educational reasons. The Pediatric Hospitalist Service assumed responsibility for the procedures and the educational process with resultant patient and staff satisfaction, educational, logistical and economic benefits.

Published 1 March 2007 in Obstet Gynecol, 109(3): 750-2.
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