Cancer patient sues doctors who removed genitals

you thought Ted Williams had it bad

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.

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Briley said a doctor looking at cell slides later found Ralls did not have penile cancer.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2035039

:scared:

This would not have happened if the patient hadn't slept through the operation.

And now the patient wants to profit from his own mistake.

I didn't look at your DUnick first, or I would have realized you were joking. I honestly felt the blood boiling, I thought it was a Freeper being serious. LMAO

if this guy killed them and I was the juror I'm not sure what I would do. I knwo it's a mistake but before you cut someone's dick you better be sure

... did any other male DU'ers cross their legs uncomfortably when they read this post?

And I laughed at the same time!

:scared:

guy deserves only $250,000? Or that this is one of those "frivolous lawsuits" that will drive up those poor innocent doctor's insurance?

bush* are a national disgrace

Don't know 'bout anyone else, but I place a higher value than that on mine...

... if as part of every settlement, the doctors who messed up had to agree to have the same botched surgery performed on themselves.

"Let's see... you're saying that a penis is only worth $250,000? Fair enough... you can keep your money, just lie on that table, pull down your pants, and hand me the scalpel."

better yet, the legislators and lobbyists who think liability caps are such a great idea, deserve the same "treatment".

:puke: :silly: :wtf:

on the member, and the life remaining, I would say he at least should receive the full sex change operation.

Stop the bitching, your dick is gone. Look at the bright side, you now have no chance of getting cancer in your penis, how many guys can say that!

against troublesome paternity suits "er, no your honor, I have no penis"

I'm not sure about the $250,000 even, he's 67, for the love of god, how often is he really wetting the pickle? his wife probaly paid the doctors to 'mess up'

for that alone the doctor should be shot.

he'll be wearing depends anyway.

I think he'd love to take a wiz standing up, don't you?

:)

so how were he and his wife having normal sex as he claimed?
I mean, OUCH!

My husband's grandfather remarried at 82, and was overheard to say,
"The sex is good, but that's not really why we got married." :)

My father was 65 when I was conceived.

I have spent years investigating the various 'routine' treatments for 'gendered' cancers. Any of you out there ever think about the cavalier approach to breast cancer? The evidence was there in 1960 that radical mastectomy was not necessary, and that lumpectomy with radiation therapy was just as effective. We didn't endorse any of the research that suggested such alternative approaches and continued, into the 1980s, to perform radical mastectomies. If you are planning to argue that breasts don't play a reproductive role, I suggest that you closely examine the social implications of radical mastectomy as well as the 'American Beauty Myth'. What's good for the goose...