Posted on 03/30/2009 8:49:51 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
A Fulton County jury has awarded $1.8 million in damages to a boy whose penis was severed in a botched circumcision. The state court jury gave another $500,000 to the boy’s mother in the decision rendered Friday. The case involves a child, identified only as D.P. Jr., who was born at South Fulton Medical Center in 2004. In a suit filed two years later, his mother contended that the doctor who circumcised him removed too much tissue and that his pediatrician failed to respond when a nurse complained of excessive bleeding. The jury found that both the pediatrician, Dr. Cheryl Kendall, and the physician who performed the circumcision, Dr. Haiba Sonyika, were negligent. South Fulton Medical Center was absolved of liability.
The tip of the penis was placed in a biohazard bag and might have been reattached if a urologist had attended to the boy within eight hours, one of the mother’s lawyers, David J. Llewellyn of Atlanta, said.
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A boy named stubby has got to be worse than being named Sue.
I knew a rabbi that saved the foreskins dried them out and made wallets out of them When you rubbed them they would turn into suit cases
I’ll refrain from the “BBB” remarks and simply keep my “Peace” on this matter.
Poyfect!
There’s a strong possibility that Dr. Sonyika will die a bloody, violent death - in about 16 or 17 years.
That operation is like something out of the Dark Ages, when people thought that illness was caused by little demons living inside you.
ROTFLMAO!
I’m in the presence of greatness.
Exactly.
Mayhap his “member” will be large enough to compensate? Otherwise, 1.8 mill will not be enough
No, it is like modern day toenail clipping. Sanitary and neat.
The wonders of medical science!
You’ve come a long way baby...
Mohels work for tips!
Under the Obama economy, that won't even get him the two One Million Dollar tokens to operate the peep show box.
Except that the foreskin is not something that grows like nails.
It’s neither sanitary, nor neat. It’s plain, old genital mutilation, along with damage to the most sensitive part of the male anatomy- the frenulum.
Perhaps we should start lopping people’s earlobes off, lest they suffer an outer-ear infection.
For 1.8 mil he can buy lotsa preeeeks in congresssss.
I agree about circumcision. We once had a great discussion here on FR concerning the whole subject.
I’d like to see another one develop.
I thank my lucky stars (and my parents) for deciding not
to have me circumcised. My father wasn’t, and maybe that was the only reason, but there are lots more very compelling reasons not to. Anyone with even a rudimentary commitment to hygiene would have nothing to worry about
from the “sanitary” angle. More than anything the great argument for remaining uncircumcised is the infinitely greater sensitivity you experience from having that thing sheathed and protected most of your waking hours. I’d like to see statistics relative to the circumcised/uncircumsized population and how many convicted rapists belong to each group. Maybe it wouldn’t prove anything, but I have some very strong beliefs about what circumcision has done to the male of the species.
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