I know this is venturing to off topic. I wanted to clarify some statements about who does circumcisions. There is considerable regional variation in the US. Back east, it appears that more OBs than pedis do circumcisions. Out west, pediatricians, OB's and FPs do circumcision. I trained in a pediatric residency program (Kaiser-San Francisco) that was very pro circumcision. Both the OB residents and the Pediatric residents shared the tasks of circumcision clinic. There are many "surgical things" that pediatricians do. Some of use do laceration repairs, put on casts, do incision and drainage on abcesses and remove foreign bodies from interesting places (noses, hands and feet). Many of us have spent countless hours during residency placing lines, intubating and putting in chest tubes. Some of us even clip frenulums. So the statement that pediatricians (at least in the US) are not trained to do surgical procedures isn't quite accurate. Still bemused by the fact that OB's (whose specialty is women's health) do male circumcision (something that doesn't quite fit into women's health). For the record I do my circumcisions in the office under local anesthetic in my office 5-14 days after birth. I find doing them after two weeks of age to be a far bloodier procedure. Thanks in advance for not sending me any "enlightening" posts on why I should not do circumcision. Pierrette Mimi Poinsett, MD, FAAP Modesto CA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html