Man sues surgeons after penis amputated

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/HealthNews/Mansuessurgeonsafterpenisamputated/tabid/420/articleID/73253/cat/58/Default.aspx



that poor guy .. I smell a cover-up from a mistake when doing the circumcision.

Was the doktor named Dyper by any chance? 

You know, I was just taking a shower and the case of John Wayne Bobbit came to mind.  His was successfully reattached after his wife cut it off and tossed in a field somewhere.  From what I understand it's fully functional.

Maybe a transplant is an option.  That would really be weird to lose your penis and wind up with another man's.

Nightfly wrote: Oh no! Poor guy, what a nightmare!

German Doctors amputated the leg off the wrong guy last month. I think some of these doctors need to have their brains amputated. Over 24,000 cases of malpractice in Canada last year. Although we have free medicare in this goofy country most of the more talent goes down to the US.

Toaster Mantis wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: You know, I was just taking a shower and the case of John Wayne Bobbit came to mind.  His was successfully reattached after his wife cut it off and tossed in a field somewhere.  From what I understand it's fully functional. Yeah, he starred in a porno called Frankenpenis afterwards in order to cash in on it. Directed by Ron Jeremy and featured cameo appearances by Ice-T and Nene Cherry. Truth is stranger than fiction...

I haven't seen Frankenpenis, but I did see the Paris Hilton amateur ho-made porno and am now scarred for life. 

Edited by Slartibartfast - September 26 2008 at 12:15

Slartibartfast wrote: You know, I was just taking a shower and the case of John Wayne Bobbit came to mind.  His was successfully reattached after his wife cut it off and tossed in a field somewhere.  From what I understand it's fully functional. Maybe a transplant is an option.  That would really be weird to lose your penis and wind up with another man's.

Well, curiosity got the best of me and I looked up penis transplant.  This is probably the best article I came across:

http://www.slate.com/id/2150153/

Apparently there's only one recent one on the record, a Chinese man in 2006 and he had it taken back off:

'The case report details how beautifully the surgery succeeded. Then, abruptly, it ends with the sentence: "At day 14 postoperatively because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off." In the follow-up article, they explain, "The patient finally decided to give up the treatment because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis."

In other words, the surgery failed. It passed the old tests—functionality, healing, immunosuppression—but flunked the new tests: cosmetics, aesthetics, symbolic meaning. The body didn't reject the tissue; the mind did. In their follow-up report, the doctors remain baffled. "What happened after the operation was still beyond our and the patient's imagination because this was the first attempted transplantation," they plead.'

Personally if I had lost mine and got a transplant - cosmetics, aesthetics, symbolic meaning be damned - as long as I could orgasm.  People are strange.

Edited by Slartibartfast - September 26 2008 at 18:28

keiser willhelm wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: German Doctors amputated the leg off the wrong guy last month. I think some of these doctors need to have their brains amputated. Over 24,000 cases of malpractice in Canada last year. Although we have free medicare in this goofy country most of the more talent goes down to the US. and yet millions of people are still screaming that free healthcare is politicallly, economically, and morally 'right'. lol at that. if that isnt at least a small critique of the proposed healthcare system in the US i dont know what is.

If you think medical mistakes don't happen in the US health care system you are sadly mistaken.  Health care will never be free, but health insurance really needs to be not for profit and single payer.  We don't need faceless corporate bureaucrats second guessing our doctors.  And our doctors do need to be accountable for their mistakes.  I've had a bit of experience with the US health care system in recent years and I don't have any complaints.  I work for a small business and know personally that health insurance expenses have been escalating to a ridiculous degree.  Tantamount to a redistribution of wealth from my pay to a bunch of greedy CEOs.


Edited by Slartibartfast - September 26 2008 at 19:13

The Doctor wrote: Nightfly wrote: Oh no! Poor guy, what a nightmare!   I dunno.  Think of how much he'll be able to accomplish in his life, never having to worry about sex again.  Unlike most of us men, he'll actually have to think with his brain instead of with his johnson.