Be forewarned, men. This hot off the presses little news snippet is likely to disturb you so much that you will be scared to have any kind of medical procedure done for the rest of your lives. A Kentucky truck driver went in for surgery to have a routine circumcision due to an infection and had a little more than his foreskin removed. After the surgery, the man had either the tip of the penis or his entire penis removed depending on whose version of events you believe.
The surgeon claims that there was a “life-threatening cancer” on the penis, which is why he decided to then amputate the tip of the man’s penis.
Phillip Seaton, the unfortunate man whose penis was amputated, is suing the Jewish hospital where the surgery took place because Mr. Seaton had no prior knowledge before the surgery that he had cancer or that his penis was going to be removed from his body.
The doctor and his attorney are refuting Mr. Seaton’s claim; he has stated that Mr. Seaton authorized the extreme procedure before surgery and that the doctor “had only removed the tip of the penis.” According to the doctor and his attorney, a different surgeon actually amputated the rest of Mr. Seaton’s penis later.
The trial in this case sounds much more interesting than a majority of other trials. Thus far in the trial, there have been four pictures of the area where Mr. Seaton’s penis used to be. I don’t know the amount of damages that Mr. Seaton and his wife are suing for. However, if Seatons are proven correct in court, the amount of money granted to them might be huge.
According to THIS, the major issue in the case seems to be whether or not a surgeon has the right to take necessary step that he or she believes will save a person’s life without the patient in question’s explicit permission. Of course, the surgeon is claiming that he had the patient’s permission prior to the surgery, so that’s another quandary to be decided in courts.
However you look at it, Mr. and Mrs. Seaton have to be two of the unluckiest people on the face of the earth. I can’t imagine that most men would react well to a penis amputation, even if the particular surgery was in fact a life-saving procedure.
Men, how much would you sue for if the same exact thing happened to you?