Edgar Schoen

Dr. Edgar J. Schoen (born c. 1925 in New York) is an American physician who worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California until 2003, and Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco until 2004. He held the position of Chair of the 1988 American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision.

Experience in hospitals

Dr. Schoen held positions at Children's Hospital of the East Bay in Oakland, CA, and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, CA and is Board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, and has practiced Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology in Oakland, CA for 46 years. Dr. Schoen was Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland for 24 years. The Medical Board of California shows that his current license will expire at the end of August, 2017. He is listed as using the Voluntary Service fee exemption which is tantamount to retired status. His address of record is a residence in Richmond, CA.

Views on circumcision

Schoen maintained Medicirc.org, an online resource in which he discussed what he perceives as benefits of circumcision. It went dead at the end of 2012. Interviewed in the Eastbay Express (2000), he states, "Circumcision is one of the best health insurance policies you can give a son. A circumcised boy has a lifetime advantage over an uncircumcised one."

Schoen's most recent book Edgar Schoen, MD on Circumcision is described by its publisher as a medically authoritative book on circumcision. Dr. Schoen has also written verses about circumcision in the American Journal of Diseases in Children (1987)[1][2]

In a Boston Globe article, Dr. Schoen says, concerning the AAP's decision to not advocate circumcision, "It’s highly biased".. The 1989 report he oversaw stated that circumcision reduced the risks of urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases.

Dr. Schoen has been critical of genital integrity organizations, saying that they have been a misguided influence on parents.

Dr. Schoen's position that routine circumcision has benefits that outweigh the risks is contradictory to the positions of several pediatrics organizations. The official policy statements of the, Canadian Paediatric Society and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians both contradict Dr. Schoen's position."[3] [4] And both the The German Professional Association of Pediatricians (BVKJ) and Royal Dutch Medical Association strongly condemn routine male circumcision in their own policy statements. [5] [6]

On his website, there is also a disclaimer that "The opinions of Dr. Schoen do not represent the position or policy of any organization."

Dr Schoen's peer-reviewed articles have also received criticism.

Views on Lead Poisoning

Dr. Schoen has been widely criticized for denying the importance of childhood lead poisoning including from tetraethyllead, challenging the lead screening recommendations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & American Academy of Pediatrics [7][8][9] and attacking Dr. Herbert Needleman.[10][11] His publications on this topic are uniformly tendentious and devoid of original research.[12] An exemplary critique of Dr. Schoen's views on lead: "Dr Schoen's scholarship in support of these arguments is highly selective. His reasoning is faulty. And his conclusions are wrong."[13]

References

  1. ↑ AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DISEASES IN CHILDREN, VOL 141: 128. FEBRUARY 1987
  2. ↑ AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DISEASES IN CHILDREN, VOL 141: 128. FEBRUARY 1987
  3. ↑ "Neonatal circumcision revisited".
  4. ↑ "•Circumcision - RACP Position Statement" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "•Opinion on the circumcision of underage boys".
  6. ↑ "•Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors (2010)".
  7. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380382/?page=1 Blood Lead Levels, Scientific Misconduct, and the Needleman Case 5. Silbergeld Responds Am J Public Health. 1996 January; 86(1): 114–115.
  8. ↑ http://realneo.us/best-way-to-eliminate-bad-climate-science
  9. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497731/pdf/16134576.pdf Warren, Christian. "Little pamphlets and big lies: federal authorities respond to childhood lead poisoning, 1935-2003." Public Health Reports 120.3 (2005): 322.
  10. ↑ http://realneo.us/system/files/pb-tainted_science.pdf Childhood Lead Poisoning & Tainted Science
  11. ↑ http://66.228.45.157/system/files/lead_exposure_brain_damage.pdf Rosania, Jenna. "Criminality Resulting from Brain Damage from Lead Exposure in Philadelphia and Implications for Management of Deviance in a Fluid Culture." (2005).
  12. ↑ http://www.jurispro.com/files/documents/doc-1066206405-resume.pdf Dr. Schoen's CV. Retrieved on 20 March 2016
  13. ↑ Landrigan, PJ & Todd, AC, "Correspondence," Western Journal of Medicine, 162-5, May 1995, pp 474-476

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