# Kentucky goes to hospital for a circumcision and gets his penis amputated. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-goes-to-hospital-for-a-circumcision-and-gets-his-penis-amputated/593366 "2011-08-19T20:08:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-goes-to-hospital-for-a-circumcision-and-gets-his-penis-amputated/593366/1 "2011-08-19T20:08:40Z")
Well, [this](http://www.theolympian.com/2011/08/18/1764847/ky-jury-selected-in-penis-amputation.html?storylink=fb) is unsettling. Man goes to hositpal for a circumcision, while he’s in surgery the surgeon apparently found cancer and deemed it necessary to remove his penis then & there; without bother to wake him or anything. There has _got_ to be more to it than this. Are the consent forms really _that_ vague? :eek: Why couldn’t removing the penis wait until Mr Seaton was able to get a 2nd opinion or at least be awake and able to give/deny consent? Assuming his wife was the one to take him to the hospital and was present in the hospital during the operation why wasn’t she asked; presumably she has power of attorney? Note the hospital settled out of court; presumably with everything sealed and no admission of anything by anyone. I seriously belive I’d rather die of cancer than have my penis cut off. If I was Mr Seaton I probally would’ve murdered Dr Patterson by now (or at least cut his dick off). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-goes-to-hospital-for-a-circumcision-and-gets-his-penis-amputated/593366)._