Timeline for Male circumcision causes eardrum to burst?
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| Jul 14, 2023 at 7:49 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | @DanGetz The original claim was that this is well known in medicine and common enough to be worth putting on a questionnaire. If so then it would certainly have been included in a review article on the subject. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 19:40 | comment | added | bukwyrm | @DanGetz They looked for all possible AE related to male circumcision: ---- "Possible MC AEs for this analysis were identified from (1) a review of PubMed using the search terms circumcision and adverse events and (2) the ICD-9 and CPT manuals for condi- tions that are not necessarily due to but could be related to MC." ---- if, as the claim states, hearing loss was a known AE for MC, they would have found it that way. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 13:13 | comment | added | Dan Getz | The study does not seem to me to have looked at hearing loss at all. I see no mention of it. Since they performed a literature review and looked at a number of possible adverse events, that's a hint that this is not a thing that happens, but it's very different from if the study had been open to finding something but had not found it. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 23:34 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 23:05 | history | answered | bukwyrm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |