One of Victoria’s most prolific circumcision doctors has been banned from performing the procedure by Australia’s healthcare watchdog.
The Medical Board of Australia took the emergency measure against Melbourne doctor Hershel Goldman earlier this month.
“The practitioner must not perform circumcisions,” reads a note from the Medical Board of Australia on Dr Goldman’s listing on the public register of practitioners.
Goldman, who previously told The Age he had performed 400 circumcisions a year, is appealing against the restrictions at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which heard the matter on Thursday. The tribunal reserved its decision.
A suppression order has been issued to seal the tribunal’s file and protect the identities of patients, notifiers and witnesses.
A spokeswoman for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and National Boards said confidentiality laws prevented it from commenting on individual cases other than what was on the public record.....
He has also performed the procedure in private homes....
in 2004, Goldman described himself as mohel, which is a person who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision when a boy is eight days old....
It states that he does not perform the procedure on patients over four months old.....
“About five years ago, I was doing mostly Jewish boys. Nobody else was interested in circumcision,” he said.
“But, just in the last 12 months I’ve been doing more and more non-religious circumcisions. ... I’m doing Christians, Muslims, everyone. I don’t discriminate, I’m an equal-opportunity mohel.”
Muss wohl irgendwelche Gründe haben. Aber anscheinend soll die Öffentlichkeit diese nicht erfahren?
60 Jahre soll der Mann alt sein, 400 Jungenverstümmelungen pro Jahr. Da kommt was zusammen
Vermutlich müssen erst viele Kinder "in den Brunnen gefallen" sein bis es Konsequenzen setzt.
