PEDIATRICS Vol. 93 No. 6 June 1994, pp. 1021
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Letter to the Editor

Madeline Harrington MD1

1 Peninsula Children's Clinic, Port Angeles, WA 98362

Wiswell et al, in their article "Circumcision in Children Beyond the Neonatal Period," (December 1993, Pediatrics), found a substantial (7%) complication rate. For this reason, they recommend that physicians "be more proactive in recommending neonatal circumcision." By this, they presumably mean that more neonates should be circumcized despite a complicated neonatal course (the reason that 32% of patients in their study were not circumcized as neonates) or that parents should be more strongly encouraged to choose neonatal circumcision (55% were not circumcized of parental choice).