Buffydaddy probably isn't mentioning how lucrative prepuce amputation is, either. The operation itself earns the physician two to three hundred dollars; then the prepuce, far from being discarded as medical waste, can be sold to biotech companies for the same amount of money. Foreskin tissue is used to make bandages for burn victims (at least this is a noble cause, even if the tissue is acquired through an atrocity that violates the part of the Hippocratic oath that says "First, do no harm") and facial moisturizers, including a face cream endorsed by Oprah Winfrey (a considerably less noble use).
Do ten of those in a week, and the doctor pockets four to six thousand dollars. Do ten a day in a busy maternity ward, and - well, you do the math.
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Buffydaddy probably isn't mentioning how lucrative prepuce amputation is, either. The operation itself earns the physician two to three hundred dollars; then the prepuce, far from being discarded as medical waste, can be sold to biotech companies for the same amount of money. Foreskin tissue is used to make bandages for burn victims (at least this is a noble cause, even if the tissue is acquired through an atrocity that violates the part of the Hippocratic oath that says "First, do no harm") and facial moisturizers, including a face cream endorsed by Oprah Winfrey (a considerably less noble use).
Do ten of those in a week, and the doctor pockets four to six thousand dollars. Do ten a day in a busy maternity ward, and - well, you do the math.
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July 4, 2011 - 9:29pmThis Comment
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