Oh, Did You Want to Keep That?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Doctors’ unions in Romania have criticised a decision to make a surgeon pay £100,000 in damages after he lost his temper and hacked off a patient’s penis during surgery.
Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
“The medical costs will be paid by the hospital’s insurer, but doctors’ unions have criticised the decision that the money for the damages has to be paid by the doctor.”
Why, I wonder.. If you suddenly lost your temper because you made a mistake, obviously it’s not your fault, you should then continue to hack the penis off and cut it into tiny pieces. At that point it should be the hospital’s insurer to pay for it. Stress.. yes, that’s it. Stress.