Posted on 08/24/2011 9:51:24 PM PDT by Lmo56
Are we now going to post pics of any gnarly thing that’s longer than it is wide?
I think most of us males would have the same reaction.
You may as well donate my heart, lungs, and kidney while you’re at it.
BTW, as to article it was a "unanamous" decision, but then it says the vote was 10-2.
I heard of testicle cancer but penile cancer? Who did he nail, Madonna? Paris Hilton? Damn, he must have stuck that thing into some really rancid taco.
At least you know what it is...
I worked in the hospital for years and most people don't even read the permission slip or the anesthesia permit....read them people, don't just take things for granted...my father was scheduled for surgery (tumor on kidney) after talking with the anthetheologist he canceled....I worked at the same hospital and had access to all the consults and biopsy's and none came up with cancer but 90% of all tumors on the kidney are cancer, they always take out the kidney to be sure.....
I could palpate his stomach and feel the tumor it sometimes bothered him but was benign. The doctor said it could have been with him for years. He said he remembered a couple of decades earlier getting kicked by a horse he was working with for possible Mounted Division (he was a Mounted man in Detroit retired in 1950 at the age of 50 and lived to be 85. Died of acute leukemia about 8 years after refusing surgery...
I don't recommend surgery cancels, he made his own decision. Just read all your permits..(no one ever told him what to do, but he said after that he just had a feeling that if he had gone to surgery, he wouldn't have survived. He just had a gut feeling that he should just go home.....
“The penile cancer was not immediately life threatening and the doctor had not recieved permission to operate on it.”
I’m in your court. The penile cancer was not going to kill him in the next week or so, and it really would be a tremendous shock to wake up that way without having anticipated it. However, because the man had signed the permission slip, perhaps the jury had no choice but to find as they did. Moral of the story: Read what you sign first, or get someone else to do it.
there was an earlier thread about a “Hacker”. I thought this one was a duplicate...
***That’s what I got out of it. Perhaps I’m the only one here who actually agrees with the plaintiff... I don’t agree that he should have been awarded $16 million dollars but... The penile cancer was not immediately life threatening and the doctor had not recieved permission to operate on it. This poor man had no chance to make love to his wife one last time (or 20). His sex life is over... period. I think the doctor was out of bounds doing something so radical without permission. ***
I agree with you. The guy didn’t have to option to get a second opinion - to be satisfied that this was the right and only option. Heck, just a two day wait may have been enough to make peace with the loss and probably wouldn’t have cost him health-wise.
I’ve signed those consent forms myself. When I give permission for the doc to use his judgement, I’m thinking that this gives him permission to stop unforeseen bleeding to to explore a little more. NOT TO GIVE ME A HYSTERECTOMY.
Penile cancer is almost always related to the foreskin and is usually caused by the (very common) HPV virus. From what I understand, it’s almost unheard of in circumcised males.
So at least he has that going for him......
I doubt Paris or even Madonna would have been that bad. Janeane Garofolo could have done some serious damage.
What’s that thing between your legs?
What’s that thing between your legs?
What’s that thing between your legs?
Cried the fair young maiden.
The poor man deserved the time to come to terms with his condition and make his own decisions.
Those posters who agree with the court decision must be looking forward to Obamacare because the decision to operate once, instead obtaining consent, is the type of decision that we could all experience under Obamacare.
Isn’t there a movement to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco? I think that it is even on the ballot, or was on the ballot. They wanted to make it illegal until the age of 18. This case should be of particular interest to them.
Do you mean the evidence wouldn’t stand up in court?
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