If his bladder was full and he couldn't pee....wouldn't you think this would be a bigger risk to have a child die so quickly? Urine backing up into the ureters would shut down the kidneys..and would lead to a multi-organ failure. My guess is the Doc may have botched the circumcision and damaged the baby's urethra so he couldn't pee. But... all is speculation without seeing an autopsy report. How tragic for these parents......
Doctor’s mistakes kill many people every year.Circumcision ought to be treated more carefully because everything is smaller and a slight error can be more dangerous to a baby.Now and again we read of a botched circumcision effectively neutering the poor infant.
- There are 700,000 physicians in the United States.
— There are 120,000 accidental deaths in the United States caused by physicians every year, and the accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.
— There are 80 million gun owners in the United States.
— There are 1,500 accidental deaths from guns every year, regardless of age group, and the accidental death percentage per gun owner is 0.0000188.
This means, the letter points out, that doctors are 9,000 times more deadly than gun owners.
That makes sense, too.
I guess, I’m just wondering if it was the circumcision itself that was the cause of death, or really *botched*. I know some of the anti-circumcision feeling out there and wonder if the headline is somewhat misleading.
It sounds more like botched medical care following the procedure was the cause.