Frankfort, KY — A Kentucky man that went under the knife for a
circumcision only to wake up with an amputation of his joystick has
asked the Kentucky Court of Appeals to overturn a previous verdict
siding with the doctor who performed the operation.
Phillip
Seaton was supposed to undergo a standard circumcision as a treatment
for an inflammation in October of 2007, but instead woke up to find his
manhood missing.
The unscheduled amputation was necessary
according to Dr. John Patterson, who discovered during the operation
that Seaton had cancer in his joystick.
Seaton contends,
however, that the amputation of his joystick was not necessary, because
other options could have been available to him, reports The Huffington
Post.
The lawsuit contended that Dr. Patterson should have
received consent from Seaton before performing the amputation. Seaton’s
lawyer, Kevin George, stated:
“The point is … a patient has a
right. The doctor does not have the right to do whatever he wants, even
if it turns out to be reasonable.”
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