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Cancer patient sues doctors who removed genitals (Penis)- DID NOT HAVE CANCER!
Associated Press ^
| 08/07/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 08/07/2003 1:38:58 PM PDT by bedolido
WICHITA FALLS -- A mechanic is suing a clinic and two doctors, claiming they removed his penis and testicles without consulting him after they mistakenly thought he had cancer.
Hurshell Ralls, 67, seeks an unspecified amount in his negligence lawsuit filed against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, Dr. John Stephen Dryden and Dr. Farid G. Khoury. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25.
Ralls, who said he had a normal sex life with his wife before the 1999 amputation, said he remains angry with his doctors.
"I don't think they should have played God, myself," Ralls said Wednesday.
The clinic and doctors declined to comment.
Ralls said Dryden started treating him 15 years ago for kidney infections caused by lifelong bladder problems. Since he was in his mid-20s, Ralls said, he has urinated into a bag through a catheter attached to his ureters, the tubes carrying urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Ralls said he went in for surgery in November 1999 after Dryden said a biopsy showed he had bladder cancer. Dryden and Khoury, who assisted in the surgery, never mentioned that the cancer could be spreading and that they might have to remove other organs, Ralls said.
In a February deposition, Dryden told Ralls' attorneys that while removing Ralls' bladder, he determined the cancer had spread to the penis.
"I was the one looking at it, and I've seen it. I mean, it was cancer," Dryden testified.
He said he did not take tissue samples to test for cancer because "I did not feel, in my medical judgment, that they were worthwhile."
Steve Briley, Ralls' attorney, said tests could have been done in 30 minutes in the same clinic.
Briley said a doctor looking at cell slides later found Ralls did not have penile cancer.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: consulting; mechanic; suing
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:38:59 PM PDT
by
bedolido
To: bedolido
said he remains angry with his doctorsYou would think.
To: mhking
definate... JUST DAMN! Ping
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:40:04 PM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: bedolido
Is there such a thing as a Major OOPS! ping?
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:40:39 PM PDT
by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: bedolido
I'm speechless.
To: Semper Paratus
Somebody would have to die, no doubt about it.
To: bedolido
Hell I'd be pissed too.
7
posted on
08/07/2003 1:41:32 PM PDT
by
TOTAL RECALL
(Recall the Governor)
To: NC Conservative
I'm speechless.That's a damn sight better than being... aw, never mind. ;^)
To: NC Conservative
I'm speechlessBeats being Dick Gephart-less
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:42:17 PM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: Mamzelle
An obvious grifter looking to get rich with the help of a sleazy and soulless lawyer, at the hands of the oh-so-skillful, caring and selfless docs, and their eager-to-please malpractice insurers.
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:43:34 PM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Killing FR and driving away the base since 2000......)
To: bedolido
(with apologies to McCartney and Lennon)
Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
Since the doc took my best part of me
Oh how I long for my pee-pee.
To: VRWCmember; Constitution Day; dubyaismypresident
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling....
12
posted on
08/07/2003 1:44:44 PM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Killing FR and driving away the base since 2000......)
To: VRWCmember
..but NOW he can sing duets with Michael Jackson and the Supremes!!
13
posted on
08/07/2003 1:44:54 PM PDT
by
wiseone
To: TOTAL RECALL
"Hell I'd be pissed too."That's the point, I don't think you could! ;)
To: Constitution Day
Somebody would have to die, no doubt about it.Very slowly, and very painfully!
15
posted on
08/07/2003 1:45:09 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Make South Korea an island)
To: Semper Paratus
His doctors better hope he doesn't take the "eye for an eye" principle to its logical conclusion here.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
LMAO!
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:45:56 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/search... Try using it once in a while!)
To: Constitution Day; VRWCmember; Chancellor Palpatine; dubyaismypresident
the A.M move this to Gen Int... NOT FAIR!!!
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:49:22 PM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: bedolido
*sob* Where threads go to die.
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posted on
08/07/2003 1:52:12 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/search... Try using it once in a while!)
To: bedolido
Briley said a doctor looking at cell slides later found Ralls did not have penile cancer. What rhymes with Ralls?
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