A Louisville, Kentucky man went to the hospital to get a circumcision. I will never understand why an adult would want to do that, but that's not the point. Phillip Seaton woke up from the anesthesia to find his penis had been amputated!
Seaton has suffered mental anguish, pain, and has lost the enjoyment of life, according to the lawsuit.
No kidding. Apparently, the doctor said they found cancer during the surgery and had to make an "emergency decision." Yeah, right. If the cancer was newly discovered, he probably had more than an hour to live, and if he didn't, amputation would not have saved him. Even if they did find cancer, the normal, decent thing would be to close him up and tell him about it. It's the patient's decision. My guess is that he would have decided to get a second opinion.
Do you get the feeling that something completely different happened... maybe something that involved "oops"?
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Oops indeed. The doctor should just fess up. Hell, haven't they reattached those things in the past?
Reminds me of the kid several decades back who went in for a circumcision as a baby. They accidentally cut his dick off, so the doctor in true Behaviorist fashion, said that they should raise him as a girl, and he'd never know the difference.
Well, he lead a horrible depressed life, eventually found out about it. Some years later he committed suicide.
I guess if I have to go in the hospital for anything in the future, I'll have to write "I am fine" on my penis with a sharpie or something
Dr. Aiken to O.R. two... Dr. Aiken to O.R. Two please...
Why would an adult male have a circumcision? My uncle had to. He fell off the roof of a barn and had numerous injuries for which he required lots of speech, occupational and physical therapy. After a year, he found out that he had another disturbing symptom. His penis was bent (there really is some medical reason for this but I don't know the name of the condition) and he was in a lot of pain. As part of the corrective surgery, he had to have a circumcision. Doubt that was the reason for this poor guy? But, I guess there are sometimes good reasons to have a circumcision as an adult.
Is "enjoyment of life" a euphemism for wiener?
Poor fella. Well on the brighter side of things, Lorena Bobbitt is single now.
WoW... I can't even joke about that one. I mean, it's funny in a dark, Terri Schiavo kinda way, but damn, that's his dick they chose to cut off.
Luuuucy, you have some 'splaining to dooo.
That is my definition of a shitty day. 'We cut off your dick. It, uh, had cancer. By the way you owe us 40k. Have a good one!'
CLC, I was thinking about the same...
We had some surgery problems around here too. Not like this one, but a guy who had to tear off the left leg almost had the right leg cut off. He was recovering and saw they drew a line on the right leg where they wer going to cut. God bless the nurse who noticed the incident.
I second on the marker's info around the body's healthy parts.
Totally inappropriate for the doctors to administer general anesthesia or perform penectomy without consent. The doctor claims that he had cancer, but there is nothing indicating that a pathologist confirmed this.
As an aside, Peyronie's Disease, wherein the penis is bent, does not require circumcision.
The allusion above about a botched circumcision recounts David Reimer's penectomy due to using improper medical instruments during circumcision. He underwent involuntary sex change as a child to "adjust" to the loss, could not adjust to living as a female, & had additional surgery to obtain male appearance before eventually committing suicide.
A common thread in these tragedies is involuntary medical procedures
performed in a paternalistic way. Circumcision is generally unnecessary &, in light of its risks, should be reserved as an elective procedure when a patient can give informed consent. Likewise, amputation should be reserved for voluntary consent &/or emergency, life-threatening situations in which a patient cannot grant consent.
Medicare may not pay for a variety of surgical mishaps occurring in hospitals. Let's hope "accidental" penectomies isn't one of them.