tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post7233291934032700263..comments2024-01-13T20:01:46.765-05:00Comments on Saving Our Sons: Void of Empathy: Medical Professionals Joke About CircumcisionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-7581213571747379242013-03-03T22:33:46.121-05:002013-03-03T22:33:46.121-05:00I couldn't NOT watch the video as I don't ...I couldn't NOT watch the video as I don't think I would be able to pull myself out of the depression it would cause me. I think ALL GENITAL MUTILATION SHOULD BE BANNED!!! The baby doesn't have the ability to consent to the procedure. I didn't even pierce my daughters' ears until they were old enough to understand what it meant, knew what it entailed... this is sick. Ronan'sMomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-21796831825185910172013-02-06T21:53:14.421-05:002013-02-06T21:53:14.421-05:00http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/amy-dunba...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/amy-dunbar-obgyn_n_2630823.html?1360192161&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-61727369566674532512013-02-06T19:09:08.326-05:002013-02-06T19:09:08.326-05:00I'm a nurse and yes, we do use kind of dark hu...I'm a nurse and yes, we do use kind of dark humor sometimes to get us through our work. IN PRIVATE. IN THE REPORT ROOM... DOOR SHUT.... to do this on a public forum like Facebook is horrible. This is the same doctor who got into a conversation mocking one of her other patients and giving details about her obstetric history. That is a violation of federal HIPAA laws. The hospital seems to be trying to sweep this under the rug. At the very BEST... this doctor is irresponsible and unprofessional. <br />Elisabeth H, RN, CPNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-27403050494341104182013-02-05T22:43:14.327-05:002013-02-05T22:43:14.327-05:00This is how this barbaric procedure done to innoce...This is how this barbaric procedure done to innocent little babies is minimalized and made to sound like business as usual.....and sadly for this kind of doctor....it is business as usual. I think they just get to a place where they don't look at an infant as a human being and that is very tragic.Marehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02459075868394984956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-85678631881004648072013-02-05T17:23:09.749-05:002013-02-05T17:23:09.749-05:00Not to be misinterpreted--I'm very anti-circ--...Not to be misinterpreted--I'm very anti-circ--but I read the conversation as being very sarcastic, not fetishist. One of my friends is a recent nursing school grad and has been working as a nurse in an ICU for a year now, and she was telling me about the rather dark joking that all the doctors and nurses do about patients, ailments, and procedures. It helps them get through the intensity of their job. And while I agree that joking about torturing a baby is terrible, I can also see that if you were someone who performed a whole lot of circumcisions and didn't have an ethical problem with it, that you would joke about it in a similar way. The real problem here is that somehow all of these medical professionals have become so desensitized that they can do this to babies over and over again, see and hear their pain, and feel nothing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-28430353304257180292013-02-05T17:03:46.286-05:002013-02-05T17:03:46.286-05:00I completely agree! Well said, Josiah.I completely agree! Well said, Josiah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-83375095034771691092013-02-05T16:22:54.491-05:002013-02-05T16:22:54.491-05:00It's disgusting. I was completely disturbed. I...It's disgusting. I was completely disturbed. I cried. To even joke about this by a doctor Omg!! That poor baby the way it was crying. This doctor needs to feel what they r doing to this baby!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-85332829623368348872013-02-05T15:08:35.395-05:002013-02-05T15:08:35.395-05:00they should ban this horrific practise! I cant bel...they should ban this horrific practise! I cant believe a male doctor did this and didnt feel sick! poor baby strapped down and being given a lollipop and all this before has even lost umbilical cord AND not under general anaesetic its SICK the baby had no way of tellin/confirming if the local anaesetic had worked/been effective enough! this is SICK! i would save that baby from them and its parents!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02629068532070893952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-17783735174021782122013-02-05T14:15:47.261-05:002013-02-05T14:15:47.261-05:00I dont think that the doctor was referring to do t...I dont think that the doctor was referring to do the circum on the baby just born. I think what she meant is that she just helped delivering a baby and now she has to move on doing someone else a circum cause she doesnt want to go back the hospital. <br />I dont know a parent who would let their infant be circum to be honest, at least, not an informed one. So I think her msgs were just misinterpreted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-54208235702393550432013-02-05T14:13:00.638-05:002013-02-05T14:13:00.638-05:00It does sounds awfaul when they joke and such but ...It does sounds awfaul when they joke and such but in all honesty TONS of doctors and nurses do this kind of "hospital jokes". My dad was a medicine seller from a company and he always had to be in hospitals and visiting doctors, he did this for more than 25 years of his life and you have no idea the many stories Ive heard. Its like doctors and nurses with the time they create this shell where surgery and such is like washing the dishes... in some aspects. They just become hardened and so they can even joke with these issues, ofc not all are like that but many are and is common. <br />When I was going to get my appendix removed I remember being in the surgery room on the bed and I could hear the conversation of the doctors with instrumentalists and other staff, they were joking about a patient they operated and one of the doctors joked to the nurse "oh you loved it, I can see you taking the gut and sucking out of it"... really and I was there waiting for the anesthesia, they joked that way making the whole operation of that guy sound lik they were having sex and they all were laughing. <br />Another time I was in the hospital a nurse that was attending me was having a conversation with a doctor and he said "so what you up to today?" and she said "Im thinking in operating my boobs" (she was looking one of those gossip magazines" and he touched her breasts and said "I can give you a prospect about the size that suits you best anytime you want" and they were giggling and he left and they werent a couple. What it cought my attention is that they would do those jokes in front of other patients, like, a daily thing.<br />Im against circum and hopefuly these groups of fetichists will be cought and have their names public. But I also think that theres a different between "enjoying" (as a kind of sadist or having some pleasure out of it) than a doctor joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-43653943236313701462013-02-05T13:14:16.875-05:002013-02-05T13:14:16.875-05:00Sadly, even after a whopping day or two there is r...Sadly, even after a whopping day or two there is really no way to know. My daughter was diagnosed with a congenital condition at the age of 31 months of age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-79060775832794244452013-02-05T12:40:46.436-05:002013-02-05T12:40:46.436-05:00If this were a female baby we would not even be ta...If this were a female baby we would not even be talking about whether the genital cutting was done right after birth or 24 hours or 48 hours later - we would be all around horrified. And the individuals cutting would be facing federal charges for a crime against an infant. How can this possibly be abuse for one sex and not another? No matter if the baby is new-newborn or 1-day-newborn, it is negligent and assault. To joke about such things is just a disgusting reflection of some disturbed people in this culture and our mode of thinking. Josiahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-19710824071847373172013-02-05T11:59:02.952-05:002013-02-05T11:59:02.952-05:00It doesn't sound like she was circumcising the...It doesn't sound like she was circumcising the baby she just delivered to me. Often docs will finish a delivery and then come by the nursery while they're there to see who 'needs' circing so they don't have to come back later in the day to do them. Many (if not most) hospitals have boundaries about infants having to be a certain number of hours old, having to be seen by a pediatrician, etc, before they can be circumcised. I am as pro-genital integrity as anyone, but I don't think this is a case of circ-em-in-the-delivery-room as used to be done. <br /><br />I agree this wasn't a very professional exchange. I hate it when people joke about circumcision. It's not funny.Saintly Nursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840700865236024514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-83685315428350350622013-02-05T11:55:01.979-05:002013-02-05T11:55:01.979-05:00I couldn't tell from her post if she was circi...I couldn't tell from her post if she was circing the infant she just delivered or another because she was there. Don't get me wrong I'm against all cutting, but if she circed the brand new-newborn that is negligent, how would she know if he had any underlying medical issues that had not presented as he was JUST BORN!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152955260192290179.post-42289468323472983602013-02-05T11:53:39.393-05:002013-02-05T11:53:39.393-05:00I read it as though she had just finished deliveri...I read it as though she had just finished delivering another baby and decided to do a circumcision on a different baby in order to not have to come back later. Makes no difference on the ethics though.Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12519685315586889843noreply@blogger.com