051115 - Re: Special Conference FW: Mini Symposium on Circumcision

In this email of 15 November, 2005, I provide FSU's President, Dean of the medical school, and over 150 other FSU medical and law school personnel with information on the kind of conference that FSU could and I believe should hold at the medical school, based on an example to be held in South Africa on Thursday, 24 November, 2005. - VL
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Dear Dean Harris, President Wetherell and Provost Abele,

Since writing to you last I have received information from South Africa about exactly the kind of conference on circumcision I have in mind for FSU’s Medical School. Every English-speaking country in the world is far ahead of the USA on this issue. Why can’t FSU Medical School lead the way in the US? Children’s lives are at stake. What is it that is stopping you? Please figure it out and tell me.

Perhaps in South Africa there is added urgency because the newspapers there print accurate information on how many children are killed by circumcision. Our newspapers don’t.

It is completely unacceptable to me that the FSU medical and nursing schools would continue to ignore this ongoing offense and tragedy in our community. You and others in our community will continue to hear from me from time to time on this subject at least until you begin to take responsible adult action on it.

President, Wetherell, would you please expand your reach on this issue into the FSU nursing school as well. This is an urgent issue for nurses as well as physicians, hospitals and medical schools. They can be sued by the victims as well as the physicians doing the circumcisions and the hospitals permitting it and medical schools teaching it.

http://nurses.cirp.org/

Van Lewis
MINI SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUMCISION

Tygerberg Children's Hospital has thankfully put together a mini symposium entitled,
THE PAINFUL DILEMMA OF CIRCUMCISION
(see attached word document for programme information)

Date: 24th of November 2005, from 12.00 – 18.00 hours
Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, Clinical Building, Medical School Tygerberg Campus, Cape Town.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please RSVP as soon as possible to dawn@sun.ac.za indicating that you would like to be there.
Please distribute as widely as possible to medical practitioners, parenting organisations, children's and human rights groups, nurses, childbirth educators, newspapers, health care facilities and beyond....