A doctor who accidentally severed his patient’s penis during a horrific botched operation has been ordered to pay substantial compensation for damages, with the injuries having had a catastrophic effect on the man’s life
A patient was left with life-altering injuries after a doctor accidentally sliced through his penis, severing it horizontally. Now, he’s sought significant compensation.
The 35-year-old man had opted to undergo penis enlargement surgery, a risky procedure intended to increase the length or thickness of the patient’s manhood. Unfortunately, on this occasion, the operation went horrifically wrong.
As the man lay on the operating table, the surgeon chopped right through his corpus cavernosum, the column of spongy erectile tissue which runs along the length of the shaft. The corpus spongiosum, the erectile tissue surrounding the urethra, was also cut through.
These two catastrophic errors, carried out in the South Korean capital of Seoul in 2020, have left the unidentified patient with loss of sexual function and difficulties urinating, as well as psychological distress.
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The MailOnline reports that, in January 2024, a court ordered the urologist who performed the operation to pay the equivalent of approximately £13,100 in damages. The doctor proceeded to appeal this ruling. In August of this year, after losing the appeal, the physician was ordered to pay an additional £3,000 in medical negligence compensation.
At the trial, it was alleged that the patient had not been informed of the risks of the surgery, an allegation which the doctor has denied. It’s understood that this patient was even more at risk of complications, as he had already undergone a penis implant, which had fused to the tissue.
The court was told: “There is a possibility that the patient would have refused the surgery had the risks been properly explained.”
It was also asserted that this calamitous injury could have been avoided had the warning signs been spotted during the op. The court was told: “In a case with serious adhesion, the dissection should have been halted before causing injury, and suturing [stitches] should have been considered to prevent complications. Attempting dissection despite poor visibility of the penile anatomy led to the injury.”
Separately, an insider told the Daily Record that there’d been an influx of men presenting at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital after getting Botox or fillers injected into their manhoods at unregulated ‘pop-up clinics’ in Glasgow.
This worrying trend has seen men turn up to such clinics in the hope of enlarging their penis, only to end up facing a raft of potentially serious medical complications. In one particularly devastating instance, one patient even had to have his penis amputated following a botched Botox procedure, which saw a Vaseline-type substance injected into his genitals.
According to this insider: “The side effects were so severe he had his penis amputated. We also had a patient in his 30s who had Botox injected into his penis. He ended up suffering an extremely severe reaction. The number of male patients we are seeing coming through the doors with similar issues from botched aesthetic procedures is increasing.”
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