The Government may withhold payment for services deemed to be medically unnecessary.

But a more common argument was that the surgeries are medically unnecessary and should at least wait for the patient's consent.

Critics say many of those extra procedures are medically unnecessary.

"Among children eligible for the study, 54 percent of their hospital days were judged medically unnecessary," the study said.

Experts agree that many of the operations are medically unnecessary.

Does he still consider them to be inappropriate or medically unnecessary?

Deliberate, medically unnecessary, extraction as a particularly dreadful form of physical torture.

A 1994 study found that in 23 percent of cases, tubes were medically unnecessary.

They believe in halting all medically unnecessary surgeries, including many of those done on people with hypospadias.

The Department of Justice, however, has called the law necessary to stop a violent practice that is medically unnecessary.