Posted on 09/26/2008 5:21:25 AM PDT by Renfield
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Shelby County man and his wife said two doctors amputated the man's penis without his consent, and have filed a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Philip Seaton, 61, went to have a circumcision last Octoberas part of treatment for a medical condition. Seaton said when he woke up from the procedure, he realized his penis had been amputated.
Seaton has suffered mental anguish, pain, and has lost the enjoyment of life, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed in Shelby County court last week against Dr. John Patterson, who performed the procedure, Dr. Oliver James, who administered anesthesia, and Commonwealth Urology, PSC.
The lawsuit states that Patterson received consent to perform a circumcision and only a circumcision, and that Seaton did not consent to his penis being removed.
Kevin George, the plaintiff's attorney, said Patterson amputated the organ after finding cancer, but he only had consent to remove the foreskin.
"Sometimes you have an emergency and you have to do this, but he could very easily closed him up and said, 'Here are your options. You have cancer,' and the family would have said, 'We want a second opinion. This is a big deal,'" George said.
The lawsuit also claims the plaintiff did not consent to general anesthesia.
WLKY attempted to contact the doctors, but have not been able to reach them.
The Seatons are seeking punitive damages against both doctors and the medical practice. Attorneys for the defendants will now have a chance to respond to the suit.
Oops!
Doh!
So what this tells me is . . . it could be worse.
The first cut is the deepest......lalala
They’re lucky. I’d have come after them with a shotgun to remove their appendages, instead of with a lawyer.
Dear God in heaven, how could this so-called doctor be so mean?
Get that man an elephant’s trunk—but then keep him away from the peanuts.
Take the cancer death sentence or lose Willie? Tough choice but I’d want the right to make the decision myself. I’d at least like for Willie to have a chance to say goodbye.
I think I just dribbled..
Hard to get your head around that. Sound to me like he got the shaft.
Do you think? On the other hand, if it was cancerous, it was going to fall off anyway.
Poor guy.
Is the doctor’s name Bobbit?
Ain’t that a pisser?
Sounds like Dr.s will have to do an Addadicktome.
As a urologist, I have to say that the plaintiff does have a point(pun intended). Penile cancer is a deadly disease, and penectomy is the only effective treatment, but carries some serious psychological freight, and the doctor should have waited to counsel him properly.
There is no excuse for this. The doctor claims he found cancer and had to amputate. Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis (or skin anywhere) is not so much of an emergency that the patient could not have been allowed to recover from the anesthetic and with a clear mind make an informed decision as to the proper course of treatment.
This falls into the category of willful recklessness on the part of the physician - beyond malpractice. The anesthesiologist should be dismissed from the suit. He had no voice in the decision to amputate.
An addadicktome procedure gone terribly wrong?
Last words of the penis: “I’ve been in many a fistfight but never thought they’d pull a blade.”
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