# Great Penis Removals Of Our Time #469 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617 "2007-01-19T20:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/21 "2007-01-20T01:15:40Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] OK…my package just crawled up into my chestal area. [/QUOTE] I’m a GIRL and I’m feeling sympathy pains! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/22 "2007-01-20T01:58:05Z")
Paying damages when a doctor maims somebody on purpose is’t a bad precident. How does it cause doctors to refrain from undertaking dangerous surgeries, when any surgery can end in the same way, if the doctor goes bonkers and slices you up because he’s miffed. I just read this about a British dentist that started pulling a ladies teeth without anestesia because he was pissed off. [Article.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/ndentist13.xml) ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/23 "2007-01-20T04:12:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Better, stronger, faster. Stronger? Whattya want to be doing, towing a boat with it? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/24 "2007-01-20T04:29:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Does it say whether it actually helped resolve the problem he was so angry about? Because there’s no way I’m cutting off my penis until I know. The OP clearly indicates that it’s cutting off someone\* else’s\* penis that reduces anger. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/25 "2007-01-20T08:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] Hm. Back when I was married, I hardly ever talked to my sister-in-law about her labia. Darn it. [/QUOTE] Hell I never ever talked to my sis about her labia…or her boobs come to that ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/26 "2007-01-20T08:42:55Z")
There’s not enough lawyers in the world. Really. I get my naughty bits whacked off ([Beavis] Heh, heh, heh. [/Beavis]) during surgery, once I get my settlement (and I’m going to be calling the ambulance chaser with the _biggest_ ad in the phone book), and I’ve had my bionic penis installed, I’m going to proceed to “explain” things to the “hatchet man” as slowly and as painfully as humanly possible. There’s not a jury in the world that would convict me. (So, do you think that “doctor” Ciomu studied medicine under Lorena Bobbitt?) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/27 "2007-01-20T09:37:50Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] I’m a GIRL and I’m feeling sympathy pains! [/QUOTE] What she said. I cannot imagine what made the doc think that slicing and dicing a patient’s equipment would be a GOOD idea. I wonder if I should mention this story to my husband. He goes in for hemmorhoid surgery the week after next. He’s paranoid ENOUGH about getting cut on. I have never discussed my labia, inner or outer, with my brother or my brother-in-laws. Somehow, I have never felt the urge to discuss my girly bits with those guys. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/28 "2007-01-20T14:01:50Z")
Reminds me of a section of the Code of Hammurabi… > [@](#): > > If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor [over the eye] with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off. I’m pretty sure “cutting off a patient’s crank” qualifies under the hand-chopping punishment, but that might be for the courts to decide, of course. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/29 "2007-01-20T14:10:52Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Firefox suppresses ads, so I don’t see them – but I sort of have to ask: How large do they have to be before reduction is a necessary step? And is this so common there are actually places that specialize in it? [/QUOTE] Would you go to someone who _didn’t_ specialize in it? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/30 "2007-01-20T18:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] There’s not a jury in the world that would convict me. [/QUOTE] Take a scene from _Saw:_ Place the doctor in a room with a time bomb, located just out of reach. It should have a large visible timer. Nail his dick to the wall and hand him a knife, then start the timer. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/31 "2007-01-21T03:13:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] One of the ads at the bottom of the page is for “Expert Labia Reduction NY.” Doc Ciomu switched specialties to Gynecology? [/QUOTE] And now, it’s for “The Second Coming”. That’s gonna be pretty hard on the patient. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/32 "2007-01-21T05:38:32Z")
:eek: Isn’t there some kind of EU “don’t be a dick” legislation that covers this? Like, you know, if peoples’ lives are going to be in your hands, come to work well-rested and in a good mood? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/33 "2007-01-21T08:54:03Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Take a scene from _Saw:_ Place the doctor in a room with a time bomb, located just out of reach. It should have a large visible timer. Nail his dick to the wall and hand him a knife, then start the timer. [/QUOTE] Actually, I’d strap him down to a table and begin cutting hunks of flesh off, while avoiding things like major blood vessels and organs. Then there’s what my uncle said happened in WWII to a Nazi sympathizer: He had his nutsack nailed to the floor of a house, was handed a knife, and then the house was set on fire. Were I in that situation, I think I’d just slit my wrists. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/34 "2007-01-21T09:06:21Z")
Here in Thailand, penis-reattachment surgery is a – pardon the expression – cutting-edge technology. There’s a huge problem with ladies slicing off their wayward men’s best friend. Makes me shudder every time I think of it. One lady tied it to a balloon and let it float away. another fed it to the ducks out in the yard. Another popped it into the blender. A bad business all around. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/35 "2007-01-21T09:26:48Z")
Damages? It was deliberate, he should go to prison for years. Are they not prosecuting him? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/36 "2007-01-21T09:33:50Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Here in Thailand, penis-reattachment surgery is a – pardon the expression – cutting-edge technology. There’s a huge problem with ladies slicing off their wayward men’s best friend. Makes me shudder every time I think of it. One lady tied it to a balloon and let it float away. another fed it to the ducks out in the yard. Another popped it into the blender. A bad business all around. ☹ [/QUOTE] Wonder why they don’t mention that in the brochures? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/37 "2007-01-21T14:19:30Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] Damages? It was deliberate, he should go to prison for years. Are they not prosecuting him? [/QUOTE] Well, that’s the dog that isn’t barking. I can’t find any reference to a possible prosecution, but then the reporting of this entire incident is totally bizarre. Half the story tells us what happened and the other half concentrates upon possible repercussions affecting Romanian surgeons in general. It’s like somebody died but no-one mentions the body. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/38 "2007-01-21T14:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] Damages? It was deliberate, he should go to prison for years. Are they not prosecuting him? [/QUOTE] I agree completely. If the doctor had attacked some guy on the street with the intent of chopping off the victim’s penis, wouldn’t he have been charged with assault? How does the victim being a patient make this any less criminal? If anything, shouldn’t it be more criminal? This isn’t medical malpractice; this is a doctor screwing up, and responding by intentionally making the situation far worse for the patient than his mistake made it. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_sky\_dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@blue\_sky\_dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_sky_dreamer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/39 "2007-01-21T15:37:02Z")
[QUOTE=Annie] Stronger? Whattya want to be doing, towing a boat with it? :eek: [/QUOTE] [Maybe just a car…](http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/weird-news/why-yes-that-man-is-pulling-a-car-with-his-penis-216201.php) (possibly not safe for work) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617/40 "2007-01-21T15:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] I agree completely. If the doctor had attacked some guy on the street with the intent of chopping off the victim’s penis, wouldn’t he have been charged with assault? How does the victim being a patient make this any less criminal? If anything, shouldn’t it be more criminal? This isn’t medical malpractice; this is a doctor screwing up, and responding by intentionally making the situation far worse for the patient than his mistake made it. [/QUOTE] I take it that one unmentioned subtext in the whole report is to make a point about how the healthcare situation in Romania is so precarious that even criminally irresponsible or incompetent practitioners can essentially hold the society hostage to \*“sure, we provide crap healthcare; but unless we can be above the law, we’ll provide you NO healthcare!” \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-penis-removals-of-our-time-469/388617.md?page=1)