Find in News Talk Sites Images For advanced search options, click here . Subscribe for free email updates . Click here to sign up, or log in . This report, the broadest of its kind, examined all hospital records in the state of Washington for a study period of more than nine years. The study finds there was a complication in one out of every 476 circumcisions.
Circumcision is a relatively safe procedure.
Christakis got the idea for the study from the parents of his patients. He's a pediatrician at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt's Pediatric Care Center in Seattle. Christakis says that many parents already know what they want for their baby boys. But other parents would ask him about the risks and benefits of circumcision. Benefits of circumcision have been extensively studied, Christakis said.