[AnotherUnixGeek]

Banks says he awoke from what should have been a routine circumcision to realize his penis was gone.

The hospital and doctors deny any wrongdoing.

The first and second sentences don't make any sense together. If this dude went in for a routine circumcision and they cut off his entire penis - um, yeah, that's in my mental dictionary right under the definition of the word "wrongdoing".

Either there's a lot more to this story or the judge is some sort of kook. If any guy does go in for circumcision, couldn't hurt to have your wife or girlfriend write "Don't cut off the entire thing!" right above your junk using a permanent marker.

[I-ambush]

My guess is that they discovered he had carcinoma of the penis once they pulled back the foreskin, and went ahead and performed penectomy (removal of the cancer), as is necessary for that disease. The mistake was probably not waking up the patient and explaining the situation to the patient and his wife, and getting their consent for the procedure first.