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The following letter, to correct the medical record, was sent to St. Joseph Medical Center.
No response has been received.
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July 15, 2003
St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
Dear Medical Records Librarian of St. Joseph Medical Center:
I specifically invoke my rights under HIPAA and request that you correct my
birth record.
I was circumcised against my will on or about July 1, 1952 at your facility,
(and by a doctor with privileges you granted), using a fraudulent diagnosis or
billing code.
Please insert the following correction in my medical record, in its entirety:
1.) I did not consent to have my erogenous tissue amputated and believe the
doctor and hospital conspired to dupe my parents into circumcising me merely to
obtain insurance reimbursement.
2.) If the obstetrician, Joseph O. Lasby, diagnosed "phimosis,
recommendation: circumcision" or used any billing code that alleges a
similar condition, I demand my birth record reflect that no such condition could
possibly exist for a newborn, as all males at birth have a foreskin that adheres
naturally to the glans. Any such diagnosis is an ignorant and transparent fraud.
3.) Ripping open that natural protective membrane, my balano-preputial lamina,
and exposing my glans prematurely, then amputating half my natural sheath and
all my Taylor's ridged band was done without the slightest medical need or
necessity. Such exposure sexually desensitized me, creating: scarring, skin
tags, skin bridges, tunnels, glans injury, urethral stenosis and lifetime
keratinization. The treating physician knew or ought to have known that.
4.) I ask that my medical record reflect that my amputation was also performed
without any anesthesia, in direct contravention of medical canons and specific
recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
5.) I ask that my medical record also reflect that my amputation was performed
without any pathology or histology report suggesting that my infant tissue was
in any way diseased, necrotic, cancerous, mutated nor had any condition that
would not have responded to treatment by antibiotics or other more conservative
care.
6.) I demand specifically to know whether my amputated tissue was transferred in
any way - sold, bartered, exchanged, donated, traded - or used for any research
or clinical purpose. I insist that my birth record reflect that I personally
NEVER received any compensation whatsoever for my purloined tissue.
I hereby request a refund of the amount your institution received for my
foreskin, or its market value, with statutory interest to date.
7.) I hereby request a courtesy copy of my birth record, once it is amended, to
include the text I request be added here.
Sincerely,
Gary G. Burlingame
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