> SUNNY ANAND, "SENSORIAL SATURATION" AND THE TINIEST "RAVING NUTCASES"
>
> (For my Anand discussion and Bellieni et al.'s "Sensorial saturation for
> neonatal analgesia" 2007 PubMed abstract, see the end of the post.)
>
> (Copied to Bellieni et al. via bellieni@iol.it; copied to Anand via
> anandsunny@exchange.uams.edu
>
> THE TINIEST "RAVING NUTCASES"...
>
> In my post, Attn AMA: Puncturing infant penises: 'More humane' is still not
> humane
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/c4a2f65e85b8a33d
>
> I noted that the AMA tried to make obvious child abuse "more humane" instead
> of simply calling for an end to it...
>
> I WROTE:
>
>> > RUPERT BEAR (see below) thinks that puncturing an infant penis before
>> > ripping and slicing off half the skin is not child abuse.
>>
>> > Rupert Bear also thinks, in effect, that there is no pain when the
>> > anesthesia is injected and that there is no pain when a baby urinates
>> > into a senseless wound on his penis...
>>
>> > Wrong.
>
> RUPERT BEAR REPLIED...
>
>> So an injection is child abuse? Boy you are really a raving nutcase.
>
> #### Rupert, the infant penis ripping and slicing is OBVIOUS child abuse.
> Performing injections to try to anesthetize the pain just adds to the
> obvious crime.
>
> #### REMEMBER:
>
> "[Routine infant circumcision] constitutes child abuse...an -acknowledged
> hazard to health." [Michael Katz, MD: Letter. AJDC, 1980]
>
> "[M]ore than one-half of the skin and mucosa of the penis is excised..."
> http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/30/3/237#411
>
> #### Rarely, babies die or lose the WHOLE penis
>
> #### There is NO medical reason to subject children to these risks - let
> alone subject them to the pain.
>
> #### Even if there is "almost complete analgesia" (see sensorial saturation
> below), the infant penis has been ripped and sliced for no medical reason.
> A mutilation/child abuse has occurred - and there are lingering pain
> effects.
>
> #### As you noted....
>
>> For the few days that the glans may be considered "raw" there are any
>> number of means available to reduce discomfort due to contact with
>> urine. Vaseline is one.
>
> #### It is not just the recently ripped glans that is raw.  There is also
> the circular wound created when infant foreskin forming the preputial niche
> is sliced off.  While it is good to try to relieve this pain, it is
> unnecessary pain - a lingering effect of the child abuse.
>
> I WROTE:
>
>> > Pain inflicted before the ripping and slicing off half the skin - and
>> > pain experienced after the ripping and slicing off half the skin - are
>> > just as much child abuse as the ripping and slicing itself.
>
> RUPERT BEAR REPLIED...
>
>> But dear crazy guy, due to the use of injected medication there is no
>> pain during your "ripping and slicing" of the foreskin. So why to you
>> continue to lie and exaggerate so wildly?
>
> #### It is MDs who lied and exaggerated wildly - using phony "babies can't
> feel pain" neurology.  I am only pointing out the lies and replacing medical
> euphemism ("routine infant circumcision") with graphic description ("mass
> infant penis ripping and slicing").
>
> #### Obviously, proponents of the mass infant penis ripping and slicing are
> going to prefer to stick with medical euphemism as they issue forth with ad
> hominem - PRETENDING that injecting anesthetic makes the child
> abuse/mutilation legal; and pretending also that the pain after the ripping
> and slicing is of no consequence.
>
> #### Meanwhile, for a while longer, law enforcement will fail to enforce the
> law - and people like Steve Harris, MD will arrogantly BOAST about law
> enforcement failing to enforce the law, as in,
>
> "Without enforcement, there is no law. Without law, there is no crime.
> These are elementary principles. Get an adult to explain them to you."
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/
> 28866f3384801ae9
>
> #### Dr. Harris was "responding" to my point that MDs are committing obvious
> vaccination promotion fraud.
>
> #### For discussion of the obvious vaccination promotion fraud...
>
> See The F Crime: Arkansas State Board of Health President Karen
> Konarski-Hart, DC
> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/4352
>
> #### BTW, the just mentioned "F crime" is another obvious medical
> crime:  Municipal chemotherapists - the vast majority of them
> unlicensed - are still forcing Americans to drink water medicated with
> FSA/fluoride, arsenic and lead.
>
>> Isn't it interesting how when a psychosexually motivated foreskin crazed
>> lunatic is called out that
>
> ##### Your "psychosexually motivated foreskin crazed lunatic" ad hominem is
> noted.
>
> SPEAKING OF "PSYCHOSEXUALLY MOTIVATED"...
>
> #### Two MDs have noted that some MDs derive sexual gratification from
> infant suffering...
>
> #### John M. Foley, M.D. in The unkindest cut of all. Fact
> 1966;3(4):2-9:
>
> "I have seen two medical students fight over the privilege of doing
> circumcision on the newborn, although these same students showed neither
> interest nor aptitude for opening boils or doing other surgical tasks.
>
> "In 1951, I witnessed an autopsy on an infant who had died from an infected
> circumcision -- a death rendered even more tragic because the mother had
> tried to persuade the obstetrician to spare her infant this ordeal.
>
> "Dr. Alexander Schaffer, a noted pediatrician, tells with horror the case in
> which an infant was being delivered as a frank breech (buttocks first).
> Before delivering the baby, and just as the penis came into view, the
> obstetrician seized it and circumcised it. That obstetrician, I would say,
> may be capable. He may be an all-round fine fellow. But sexually I say he is
> a monster. And I say that one of the reasons why circumcision is so common
> in this country stems from the sadism of the crypto-pervert..."
> http://www.cirp.org/news/1966.07_Foley/
>
>> he does an immediate flip flop on his line.
>
> #### Please supply substantive criticism with your ad hominem.  Where is the
> flip flop?
>
>>  From slavating over the thought sof "ripping and slicing" he now
>> switched without missing a beat to needle stick pain like the child
>> exeriences from shots as if it is the worst possible thing in the world.
>
> ##### You yourself are missing a beat - perhaps intentionally.  There is NO
> medical indication.  ANY pain inflicted with no medical indication is child
> abuse - as is the lingering pain from the infant penis ripping and slicing
> wounds.  See above.
>
> ##### I SAY AGAIN...
>
> "[Routine infant circumcision] constitutes child abuse...an -acknowledged
> hazard to health." [Michael Katz, MD: Letter. AJDC, 1980]
>
> "[M]ore than one-half of the skin and mucosa of the penis is excised..."
> http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/30/3/237#411
>
> #### Rarely, babies die or lose the WHOLE penis
>
> #### There is NO medical reason to subject children to these risks - let
> alone subject them to the pain.
>
> #### The grisly infant surgery should have ended BILLIONS of infant screams
> ago - back in 1987 when I pointed out that American medicine was
> perpetuating phony "babies can't feel pain" neurology as MDs ripped and
> sliced infant penises en masse with no medical indication.
>
> See HIV: Keeping MDs out of prison: Dr. Poland, AAP and infant circumcision
> revisited
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/43c7261a4aafff5a
>
> #### A few years after I called for a religious exemption from the child
> abuse statutes for the ancient Jewish ritual that leaves most of the
> foreskin on the penis...
>
> #### American pediatricians came out against ALL religious exemptions and in
> favor of anonymity for perpetrators of child abuse.
>
> #### Later, American pediatricians fraudulently EQUATED their grisly total
> foreskin amputation ritual with the ancient Jewish ritual that leaves most
> of the foreskin on the penis.
>
> See Pediatrician 'ethics' (Attn: Gesundheit et al.)
> http://health.groups.yahoo.com /group/chiro-list/message/2908
>
> See also: Why the infant penis has a 'floppy tip' (Rip and slice vs. Slice
> and rip)
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/e7ee28d7cde3999b
>
> #### There are STILL no medical indications for American medicine's total
> foreskin amputation ritual.  Ending the grisly infant surgery instantly
> saves America an estimated $400 million per year and PRESERVES the surgery
> as a CHOICE American males can make for themselves in adulthood.
>
> #### Rupert Bear offered further ad hominem...
>
>> Why do they allow internet access at mental homes in Oregan?
>
> #####  I have no idea whether they allow internet access at mental health
> facilities in Oregon.  Your ad hominem is again noted.
>
> SENSORIAL SATURATION
>
> ##### If sensorial saturation is as easy and effective as the authors state,
> let us hope the practice spreads rapidly...
>
> Med Biol Eng Comput. 2006 Oct;44(10):841-5. Epub 2006 Sep 16. Links
> Neonatal pain analyzer: development and validation.
> Sisto R,
> Bellieni CV,
> Perrone S,
> Buonocore G.
> Department of Occupational Health, ISPESL, Monteporzio Catone (Rome), Italy.
> We developed a pain analyzer (ABC analyzer) to perform automatic acoustic
> analysis of neonatal crying and to provide an objective estimate of neonatal
> pain. The ABC analyzer uses a validated pain scale (ABC scale) based on
> three acoustic parameters: pitch frequency, normalized RMS amplitude, and
> presence of a characteristic frequency- and amplitude-modulated crying
> feature, defined as "siren cry". Here we assessed the reliability of the
> analyzer. We enrolled 57 healthy neonates. Each baby was recorded with a
> video camera during heel prick. Pain intensity was evaluated using a
> validated scale [Douleur Aigue du Nouveau-Ne (DAN) scale] and the analyzer
> and the two scores were compared. We found a statistically significant
> concordance between the DAN score and ABC analyzer score (p < 0.0001). The
> ABC analyser is a novel approach to cry analysis that should now have its
> properties carefully evaluated in a series of studies, just as is necessary
> in the development of any other pain measurement tool.
>
> JUST MONTHS after saying that their ABC analyser "should now have its
> properties carefully evaluated"...
>
> Some of the same authors are using their ABC analyser to cause SENSORIAL
> SATURATION - "almost complete analgesia" in babies...
>
> Clin J Pain. 2007 Mar-Apr;23(3):219-21.
> Sensorial saturation for neonatal analgesia.
> Bellieni CV,
> Cordelli DM,
> Marchi S,
> Ceccarelli S,
> Perrone S,
> Maffei M,
> Buonocore G.
> Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, University
> of Siena, Italy.
> AIM: Sensorial saturation (SS) is a procedure in which touch, massage,
> taste, voice, smell, and sight compete with pain, producing almost complete
> analgesia during heel prick in neonates. SS is an apparently complex
> maneuvre, but when correctly explained it is easily learnt. In the present
> paper, we studied its feasibility, assessing whether a long training is
> really needed to achieve good results. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We enrolled 66
> consecutive babies and divided them randomly into 3 groups which received
> the following forms of analgesia: glucose plus sucking (A), SS performed by
> nurses (B), SS performed by mothers (C). We did not use perfume on the
> caregivers' hands, so that babies could smell the natural scent of the
> hands. We assessed pain level by the ABC scale. RESULTS: Median scores of
> groups A, B, and C were: 1 (0 to 6), 0 (0 to 4), and 0 (0 to 6),
> respectively. Mean scores were: 0.6, 0.6, and 1.7 and standard errors were
> 0.38, 0.22, and 0.32, respectively. Scores of groups B and C were
> significantly lower than that of A (P=0.03 and 0.006, respectively). No
> significant difference was found between values of scores of groups B and C.
> CONCLUSIONS: Even without the use of perfume on the hands, SS was effective
> as an analgesic maneuvre. It made no difference whether SS was performed by
> mothers who applied it for the first time or experienced nurses. SS is rapid
> to learn and any caregiver (mother, pediatrician or nurse) can effectively
> use it.
>
> #### Again, if sensorial saturation is as easy and effective as the authors
> state, let us hope the practice spreads rapidly...
>
> #### But it would be better for American MDs to simply stop their mass
> infant penis ripping and slicing.
>
> #### Of course, American MDs - and indeed MDs in every country - should stop
> their OTHER massive crimes - instead of (for example) authoritatively
> pretending that they are interested in collaborating - "particularly" with
> doctors of chiropractic - in regard to patient safety...
>
> See Pediatricians reach out to chiropractors (also: AAP's breastfeeding
> fraud
> and that pesky PF Riley, MD)
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/a5ab637266d61cda
>
> #### Thanks for reading everyone.
>
> #### Sincerely,
>
> #### Todd
>
> #### Dr. Gastaldo
> #### Hillsboro, Oregon
> #### USA
> #### todd@chiromotion.com
>
> #### PS
>
> Dr Carlo V. Bellieni (cited above) is a neonatologist, professor of neonatal
> therapy at the Pediatrics school of the University of Siena, Italy. He is
> member of the scientific board of the European Pain School. He has written
> several books about the fetus as a person, which have been translated into
> Spanish and French. His research on infantile pain has been reported by The
> Times (UK), El Mundo (Spain), CNN, ABC, and many other media.
> http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444
>
> When an interviewer remarked that "Some scientists deny that the fetus feels
> pain"...
>
> Dr. Bellieni replied:
>
> "[P]rejudice and resistance against the recognition of fetal and neonatal
> pain are still present and they are big foes to effective treatment."
> http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444
>
> Dr. Bellieni also indicated that KJS "Sunny" Anand, "pioneer of neonatal
> pain," devoted an issue of the official journal of the International
> Association for the Study of Pain (June 2006) to the problem...
>
> DR. BELLIENI'S MENTION OF KJS ANAND REMINDS...
> My Oct. 11, 1987 letter calling for an end to the obvious mass child
> abuse by American MDs was copied to the New England Journal of
> Medicine...
>
> A month later, on November 19, 1987, the New England Journal of
> Medicine
> belatedly published
> Harvard pain expert KJS Anand's admission that he and others had used
> phony "babies can't feel pain" neurology for decades. [N Eng J Med
> 1987;317:1322]
>
> Anne B. Fletcher, M.D. editorialized, in that same November 19 issue
> of
> the Journal, that the pain of circumcision is "incurred by infants."
>
> Anand later told me that he had submitted his paper to the Journal the
> year before, but was told it would be "too inflammatory."
>
> NOTE: I recounted my conversation with Prof. Anand in a 1989-90 issue of
> Midwifery Today in which I discussed the European medical proposal to
> stave off America's threatened recommendation for universal newborn
> infant circumcision, with breastfeeding, strict-rooming-in, kneeling
> birth and research into applying maternal fecal matter to the infant
> penis.  See Winberg et al. The prepuce: A mistake of nature? The Lancet
> 1989].
>
> I think my Oct. 11, 1987 letter to PEDIATRICS - withheld by Editor
> Jerold F. Lucey, MD -
> stimulated NEJM's belated publication of Anand and Hickey's article.
>
> PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
>
> I say NEJM and PEDIATRICS editor Jerold F. Lucey, MD committed
> psychological violence against me, as in,
>
> "[Withholding] information by restricting scholarly exchange...[is a
> form
> of]...psychological violence."
> --Ralph Crawshaw, MD. Academic sanction: targeting South African
> science.
> JAMA 1989;262(11):1499-1503
>
> Jerold F. Lucey, MD never did publish my Oct. 11, 1987 letter exposing
> Poland et al. perpetuating uncorrected American medicine's phony
> "babies can't feel pain" neurology.  In that same Oct. 11, 1987 letter, I
> called for an end to the mass child abuse by MDs.
>
> That was BILLIONS of dollars' worth of infant screams ago.
>
> Sorry for the "sensorial saturation" (this long post); but it is time for
> American medicine to stop massive ongoing "sensorial saturations" - i.e. -
> American medicine must finally stop its grisly most frequent surgical
> behavior toward males and the other obvious MD crimes.
>
> Stopping the infant screams now instantly saves America an estimated $400
> million per year and PRESERVES the surgery as a CHOICE American males can
> make for themselves in adulthood.
>
> ATTENTION SUNNY ANAND (via anandsunny@exchange.uams.edu):  Jerold Lucey's
> bit of psychological violence against me back in 1987 - and your ongoing
> silence regarding the fact that the mass infant penis ripping and slicing is
> obvious child abuse - perpetuates senseless mass infant suffering.
>
> The only upside to being frustrated in my attempt to stop mass infant penis
> ripping and slicing by MDs - is that I persisted and exposed more (and
> worse) mass child abuse by MDs.

> In 1986, Dr. Finkel noted that MDs are guilty of failing to report child
> abuse.
>
> "What a terrible indictment...guilty of failing those for whom we have
> chosen to be advocates." [Finkel KC: The failure to report child abuse.
> AJDC, 1986;140:329-330]
>
> Failing to report child abuse is itself a crime.
>
> You are indeed a "pioneer of neonatal pain" - you are a pioneer of helping
> American medicine PERPETUATE neonatal pain.
>
> Please stop your crime of silence, Sunny.
>
> Please help stop the infant screams.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Todd
>
> Dr. Gastaldo
> Hillsboro, Oregon
> USA
> todd@chiromotion.com
>
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>
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