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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsO.M.G. U.S. man undergoes circumcision only to wake up and find his entire penis amputated.
The hospital has another view of the matter and says it will defend itself in the upcoming lawsuit. Odd indeed!
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Something was absent without leave when Johnny Lee Banks came out of the anaesthetic after what should have been a routine circumcision at a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, last month. That, at least, is the claim in a medical malpractice suit filed this week that has men across the state, if not America, clenching their midriffs in horror.
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When the plaintiff
woke from his aforesaid surgical procedure, his penis was amputated, the lawsuit states. It goes on to contend that no one at the Princeton Baptist Medical Centre in Birmingham has been able to explain why it had become necessary to remove the entire organ rather than just the foreskin as he had expected.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-patient-johnny-lee-banks-sues-doctors-over-circumcision-that-ended-up-as-amputation-9629739.html
leftstreet
(36,111 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)clutch their genitals in horror every time they consider female genital mutilation. It sucks that this happened to him, but it also sucks when millions of women undergo FGM at the hands of their male dominated cultures.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)And given that it's systematic in some cultures makes it worse.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)*crosses legs*
thanks. I needed that
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Not the whole freaking thing!
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)a was excruciatingly painful.
DocwillCuNow
(162 posts)reality much.
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)and an injury caused repair and circ to his penis. He told me getting gut shot was less painful.
enid602
(8,647 posts)The moral of the story is quit while you still have a head.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Really people? Really? "hahaha he had his whole penis removed due to malpractice, that's HILARIOUS!"
Mosby
(16,342 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And the collections department took it as "asset forfeiture".
Greybnk48
(10,171 posts)They would need way more than a penis for their "pound of flesh."
DocwillCuNow
(162 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Isn't this something that is usually done soon after birth or not at all?
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)I thought he was nuts to do it. He later said that it was an extremely painful ordeal.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Many men need too have it done later in life.
A gall bladder removal is a routine operation but that does not mean everyone has one.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)but "many men need too have it done later in life"?
I have never heard that before. Can you explain (or PM me what to google for)?
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Kaleva
(36,328 posts)j/k!!!
Greybnk48
(10,171 posts)Occasionally, but not rarely, older men with excess foreskin would come in for a circumcision because of chronic infections; primarily because it's difficult to keep their penis clean with the hooded tip. It was a very simple procedure done under local anesthesia with sedation.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)I think he came on Johnny Carson and talked about getting "re-tooled."
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)was being circumcised in the first place.
There's just a little bit missing from the article.
added on edit:
At least he had general anesthesia. Most of the time FGM happens without any anesthesia at all.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)When I went in for shoulder surgery the Dr signed his name on my left shoulder to be operated on and wrote "not this one" on my right shoulder. My dad's Dr did the same for his knee replacement.
mythology
(9,527 posts)"yes" and "no" on the respective legs. I didn't understand why given that you could see the growth bulging out of my thigh muscle. But in retrospect, I guess better safe than sorry.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)genwah
(574 posts)Historic NY
(37,452 posts)Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)This is very horrific!
Phlem
(6,323 posts)PCIntern
(25,576 posts)I'm shocked. I gotta sit down.
I know, this is not a ritual circumcision, but what a coinkdink! Just amazing!
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)Whole lotta jokes about the poor guy. Unreal. Medical malpractice is sooooo funny. I remember the time the Dr. punctured my mothers lung after heart surgery. So hilarious! And the time a surgeon left a sponge in my sister after an appendectomy....best time ever. We laughed for days as she lay in severe pain racked with infection.
ClarkeVII
(89 posts)Penis jokes are funny in Puritan America.