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Many family medicine residents are opposed to the performance of neonatal circumcision. I will discuss my experiences and insights over the last 10 years providing support for the residents who wish to remain conscientious objectors.
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Shaw D (2009) Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines. Clin Ethics 4:181–186
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Storms, M. (2013). Ten Years of Training: Family Medicine Residents as Conscientious Objectors to Circumcision . In: Denniston, G., Hodges, F., Milos, M. (eds) Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1_9
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