A clinic in New Mexico must pay $412 million to a man whose penis was “decimated” and “completely ruined” by medically unnecessary injections he was given after being misdiagnosed with ED.
https://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article296257084.html
Who’s the evil actor in this incident? Or are we conflating incompetent and/or negligent with evil, now that we have >2K posts?
I suppose that if the misdiagnosis was deliberate to trigger the highly profitable “medical need” for the legit injections, which just happened by bad luck to go badly for the patient, we could lay the label “evil” on the fraudulent medical practice.
Or if the treatment itself was pure quackery, that can be evil. E.g. injecting or drinking bleach or consuming the legit medication ivermectin as a cure for COVID, anyone?
The clinic that gave the man a bad diagnosis in order to sell him a bad treatment that he didn’t need and which obliterated his junk.
I guess I have to read the link
<kd99 goes back to read link>
Okay, that’s pretty clear that it was worse than simple negligence or incompetence. It was serious malpractice with a depraved indifference for the well-being of their patient.
@Alessan and @Czarcasm, back in the day, the word cunt was indeed used as a word for female genitalia. But in more recent times, it has evolved to become a more generic term for the ‘worst of the worst’ possible person, and nothing to do with being female.
Once upon a time, it was the only word I would NEVER use. I swore like a wharfie, bloody, fuck, bitch, arsehole, whatever, but I never used the word cunt.
But how the world has changed (and me too I guess) because there are plenty of people out there for whom the word arsehole is nowhere near a descriptor. They are just cunts. And mostly they are bloke cunts…t’were a female, I’d call her a cunty bitch. 
Doesn’t answer my question, though.
Because at this point in the evolution of the English language, dick and prick are reserved for males.
Now while females can do ‘dickish’ things’, prick is the sole domain of blokes. A bloke can be a dick, a prick and/or a cunt, depending upon the severity of their behaviour.
Having said that, in Great Britain and Australia, cunt can also be used as a term of endearment. Eg:
Fuck, messed that up. For example, you (a male) come across an old friend from yonks ago, and your greeting might well be, “Jacko, ya old cunt, how’s it going?” and it will be taken with the good nature with which it was intended.
The New York Times has published an email Pete Hegseth’s mom wrote to him in 2018.
It’s not flattering.
I feel exactly the same as Kambuckta does about the word cunt. It used to be like nails on a chalkboard for me to hear. It doesn’t bother me in the least anymore.
Still, I’d never actually use it since I don’t know how others feel about it.
And is US usage it’s totally reserved for the worst of the worst … of women and only women.
In US usage it’s a nonsequitur / misnomer if aimed at a man and a monumental combo of max-case personal insult and wide-ranging generalized weapons-grade misogyny if aimed at a woman.
So really, right up there with the “N-word” as something never to utter in front of a US audience.
Which really makes me wonder not at all about any of the non-US folks in this digression in this thread, but rather a lot about the US folks in this thread seemingly agitating for its use here.
It’s the ultimate derogatory misogynistic term in the US.
The B word is also really bad but still not at that level.
And, of course, lest we forget, this is an American-based board, and most of our membership is American.
Asshole takes the cowardly way out.
The heart of this trial focused on two women: one who said Golubski began sexually abusing her when she was a young teen in middle school, and another who said he began abusing her after her twin sons were arrested. Prosecutors said seven other women were planning to testify that Golubski abused or harassed them as well. And advocates for the women believe there are other victims who have either died or have been afraid to come forward.
Still a better outcome than if he went to trial and was acquitted.
I don’t seem to mind, when someone’s life is crashing down due to their own actions, that they “take the easy way out.” However, I do recognize that the victims will not have the opportunity to have their say in public, in court, and I don’t know how much or how little that means to them.
I won’t be surprised if there are other factors involved that I am not thinking of. On the whole, I think dying is being punished enough.
It also protects him (or his relatives) from paying any criminal compensation, since he is not found guilty (or at make it a lot more difficult).
What is “criminal compensation?” I assume you mean civil liability based on civil suits? I wonder if victims can sue his estate for damages?
Relatives would not be directly liable to any civil liability judgments for his behavior, but it is true that if he had civil judgments it would have reduced his assets (if any) and affected some of his relatives at second hand (e.g. loss of inheritance).
Hope she meets some crazy cat ladies.