RT Journal A1 Joseph PR T1 NEonatal circumcision and anesthesia JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine YR 1999 FD November 1 VO 153 IS 11 SP 1203 OP 1203 DO UL http://dx.doi.org/ AB I enjoyed the editorial of Drs Maxwell and Yaster in the May issue of the ARCHIVES.1 When health maintenance organizations begin to tally and publicize the percentage of circumcized newborns who received anesthesia (as a measure of quality of care), then hospital administrators will require anesthesia from the physician doing the circumcisions. Finances will prove more compelling than education.