Avery’s Neonatology Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn

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I would recommend this book for a remarkably simple reason: it is the only US medical text I know of that has the timetable for the desquamation of the male infant and childhood membrane, the balano-preputial lamina, even vaguely correct. It suggests, quite correctly, that this synechia can persist into late puberty. All other US medical books suggest that this membrane should be gone by age 5 or so, which is patently dishonest and based on Douglas Gairdner’s error af anatomy of 1949 found in the BMJ. 

This little bit of convenient dishonesty has meant injury to millions of US boys for over 50 years.
Hats off to Avery’s for getting this important detail correct!!
John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M.
Attorney-at-Law
Executive Director
General Counsel 

Doctors Opposing Circumcision

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 19-OCT-05, Volume 294, Issue 15, Bhagya L. Puppala, MD, Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital, Park Ridge, IL — "This text provides a most comprehensive and excellent review of the issues and concepts central to the practice of neonatology. The editors have succeeded in maintaining uniform style and flow, and the writing is clear and concise. This textbook will continue to be the leading reference on the critical care of the newborn. I highly recommend it to anyone involved with the care of newborns and to fellows preparing for neonatology board examinations."-Journal of the American Medical Association

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