What is the name of the person who performs circumcisions?

Answer 1

This will depend on whether the circumcision is being performed by a physician or any other trained person authorized to perform circumcisions. They can be done in a hospital, a clinical setting, or at home. If a Rabbi does it, it can either be done at home or at the synagogue. The location of the procedure may also vary depending on whether the circumcised person will be an adult: this almost always has to be a medical setting.

Answer 2

Circumcisions of Jews are done by a Mohel (or by a Mohelet if the Mohel is a woman). A Mohel is trained in the ritual of circumcision according to the precepts outlined in classical Rabbinic texts. A Mohel is someone trained in the halacha (Jewish religious law) and medical procedures in order to be able to perform the circumcision to the highest standards, but he is not necessarily a Rabbi. The Mohel performs the ritual of brit milah (circumcision) on the baby boy eight days after he is born (unless there is a problem with the infant's health, in which case it is done at a later date).

Answer 3

If it is being done for medical reasons And medical reasons for cicumcision are extremely rare for a baby: a pediatrician or a OB/GYN

If it is being done medical reasons for an adult: a urologist.

Jewish ceremony: Mohel

The vast majority of circumcisions worldwide however are done on Muslims and are done by people with no medical training whasoever.
A trained doctor.

It all depends on where you are in developed country like the US it is performed by mohels in the case of Jews otherwise some doctors will perform his barbaric act. however in most of the country's where this is done there i practically no professionalism about it. The death toll in the US is over 100 PA you may well wonder what it is like in the Middle East where you have to take into account Female Genital Mutilation as well.

Answer 4

I can explain to you in detail but there is a easy way search Goggle for circumcision and you will find full detail how it is performed there is even sites scow you how to do it your self although i will not recommends it.

Answer 5

For Jews, circumcision is done by someone specially trained, both religiously and medically. The Hebrew title is Mohel. Civil law, as well as Torah-law, permits a mohel to function only after full qualification; and it is a fact that as an operation, circumcision has an extremely small complication rate. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (1990) reported a complication rate of 0.19 percent when circumcision is performed by a physician. When performed by a trained mohel, the rate falls to 0.13 percent or about 1 in 800. When a complication occurs, it is usually due to the bleeding, which is easily correctable. No other surgical procedure can boast such figures for complication-free operations.
One reason why there are so few complications involving bleeding may be that the major clotting agents, prothrombin and vitamin K, do not reach peak levels in the blood until the eighth day of life. Prothrombin levels are normal at birth, drop to very low levels in the next few days, and return to normal at the end of the first week. One study showed that by the eighth day, prothrombin levels reach 110 percent of normal. In the words of Dr. Armand J. Quick, author of several works on the control of bleeding, "It hardly seems accidental that the rite of circumcision was postponed until the eighth day by the Mosaic law."

The origin of Jewish circumcision is in the Torah. God told Abraham "every male among you shall be circumcised" (Gen. 17) as part of the covenant between God and the Jewish people.
Since that time, virtually all Jews have observed the command of circumcision (Genesis ch.17) for close to four millennia, even in times of religious persecution under the Greeks, Romans, Spaniards, Soviets and others. Circumcision is the indelible sign of God's covenant with Abraham and is just as important as Yom Kippur in terms of the stringency which the Torah places upon it. And similar to Yom Kippur, it is one of the observances which are common to Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews alike.

While we do not keep God's commands because of physical benefits, it is still interesting to note that: Circumcision has been known to offer virtually complete protection from penile cancer. According to a recent review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, none of the over 1,600 persons studied with this cancer had been circumcised in infancy. In the words of researchers Cochen and McCurdy, the incidence of penile cancer in the U.S. is "essentially zero" among circumcised men.
Also, research at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore have shown that circumcised men are six to eight times less likely to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Researchers believe that protection is due to the removal of the foreskin, which contains cells that have HIV receptors which scientists suspect are the primary entry point for the HIV virus. (Reuters, March 25, 2004) Several studies reported that circumcised boys were between 10-to-39 times less likely to develop urinary tract infections during infancy than uncircumcised boys. In addition, circumcision protects against bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections and a variety of other conditions related to hygiene. The extremely low rate of Cervical cancer in Jewish women (9-to-22 times less than among non-Jewish women) is thought to be related to the practice of circumcision. As a result of studies like these, a number of prestigious medical organizations such as the California Medical Association have recognized the benefits of circumcision.

Answer 6

The title is Mohel, related to the word Mal (Genesis ch.17), meaning circumcise.

Answer 7

Your doctor will more than likely refer you to a general surgeon to perform the procedure.

Answer 8

An incision is made around the base of the foreskin, the foreskin is pulled back, and then it is cut away from the tip of the penis. Stitches are usually used to close the skin edges.

Answer 9

He is called a mohel.

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