Instead of cutting the doctors cut off a man's penis

56-year-old US Alabama went to hospital for a circumcision. What is the the terror of the patient waking up after anesthesia, when he discovered that he amputated penis.

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One John Lee Banks, Jr. and his wife Zelda filed a lawsuit against the hospital Princeton Baptist Medical Center, located in Jefferson County Alabama. Subject of action reminiscent of a popular anecdote about the distraction of doctors and patients only Johnny unfortunate not funny, because this thing happened to him at the business.

The lawsuit alleges that the man decided to go through quite common in the US and is considered one of the simplest of operations to remove the foreskin of the penis. A couple dozen years ago, it did virtually all newborn boys, regardless from religious families, as it was considered that the procedure is useful to hygienic point of view. Subsequently, these regulations have been revised, and right now circumcision   American clinics conducted only at the request of patients.

When Johnny awoke from anesthesia, he found that doctors together circumcision   made him amputation penis . The plaintiff claims that there was an outrageous medical error, but it categorically deny the defendants. The hospital said that amputation of a member - a rare but theoretically possible complication in the circumcision, and the patient was warned about it in advance.

Johnny says that no one in hospital, he did not say anything like that, and if he heard about it, it is not for whatever went under the knife. Note that in 2011 the United States took place a similar case, but then during circumcision surgeon noticed a cancerous tumor from the patient's penis and produced his partial resection. The hospital does not He said that was the reason for the current amputation. (READ MORE)

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