Doctor slices off penis and chops it to little pieces

[B40]

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.

A Romanian court has now awarded Radonescu £20,000 costs – to pay for the operation to rebuild his ruined penis using tissue from his arm – as well as 100,000 pounds in damages.

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.

They say the move sets a dangerous precedent and that Professor Ciomu, a urologist and lecturer in anatomy, has already been punished enough after having his medical licence suspended.

They said he had been under stress and had lost his temper after he accidentally cut the man's urinary channel and 'overreacted' to the situation. He told the court it was a temporary loss of judgement due to personal problems.

Vice-president of the Romanian Doctors Union, Vasile Astarastoae, said: 'Ciomu's case is a dangerous precedent for all Romanian doctors. In future doctors may have to think very carefully about what work they undertake.'

Because obviously, the last thing you want is a doctor thinking carefully about the work they're doing.

The director of the ophthalmology hospital in Bucharest, Dr Monica Pop (yes, actually her name), agreed saying that doctors would in future avoid any cases where they could end up in court having to pay damages.

She added: 'Doctors in Romanian earn too little to be able to pay amounts like this. As a result it will be entirely fair if they only accept cases where they cannot make mistakes. The only way this can be avoided is if the insurance companies cover all the risk.'

[CrazeeV]

Will makes me think twice about getting an operation

[sxz]

I cringed reading it.

[ak-47]

only £100,000 ? that's so little compensation for hving ur penis chopped up, I'd exepct at least MILLIONS

[konfusion666]

wow, you can use tissue from your arms to rebuild a penis.

you know what that means, right? take good care of your ARMS, boys!

[kitbor]

Romania court should order the penis transplant from Dr. to the poor guy. I think the Dr.'s got jealous when he saw the poor guy penis.

[Mattones]

id make sure that guy is shot for doing that to me

[felixdd]

Why is there no mention of criminal charges against the doctor?

[Jkim]

Just reading that made my balls cringe

[BlueMax]

I like the idea of swapping the dreaded doctor's dink for the downed direlect's dismantled & dissected dong.

[UrbanPoet]

so this is why foreign phd's have such a hard time getting jobs here...

[Homo_Erectus]

wow, you can use tissue from your arms to rebuild a penis.

you know what that means, right? take good care of your ARMS, boys!

The victim here could simply use this as an excuse to get a few more inches of extention on his penis. You know, just in case he is only 5 inches.

BUt that might mean he would need a lot more arm tissue to build that masterpiece..........

[nini1204]

She added: 'Doctors in Romanian earn too little to be able to pay amounts like this. As a result it will be entirely fair if they only accept cases where they cannot make mistakes. The only way this can be avoided is if the insurance companies cover all the risk.'

one of the most pathetic things i've heard...what does "accept cases where they cannot make mistakes" even mean?? when an individual's temper takes over professionalism, common sense & basic ethics, there's not one case he/she should be accepting.

[suelee3]

Is this story really true??!!

What if he had been doing heart surgery? Would he cut out the heart and chop it up into pieces as well?

Or what if it had been eye surgery? Would he make the patient blind and walk away?

The poor patient. He should have received millions in compensation, not thousands...

[JAGpilot]

Note to self: DO not have surgery done in Romania.