Today’s Disfiguring Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A surgery meant to reverse a colostomy on a Dover, MA man went horribly wrong in 2006, resulting in fecal mater being discharged from his penis and urine passing through his colon, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court. During the procedure, the suit alleges doctors at Kent General Hospital improperly stapled the colon to the bladder instead of the rectal stump. This left the patient with diarrhea, as well as gas and liquid stool passing from his penis. The man was taken to Christiana Hospital 12 days later to have the procedure corrected, but not until after much suffering and embarrassment as well as “disfigurement and disability,” the suit claims. It also affected life at home with his wife, who also is suing the three doctors involved in the allegedly botched procedure, Surgical Associates P.A. and Bayhealth Medical Center Inc. Dr. Scott D. Goldstein, director of colon and rectal surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, said he had not seen the suit and is not familiar with the specific case. He said this type of surgical error has been documented before, “but it should be rare as hen’s teeth.”
Culled from: DelawareOnline.Com
Generously submitted by: Aimee
I certainly HOPE it’s as “rare as hen’s teeth”! (What a fantastic expression.)
Sorry, it’s Dover DE, not MA.
It may be rare as hen’s teeth, but I’d have to know just how many cases there’ve been of hen’s teeth before I said for sure. I do know this isn’t the first case of its kind that I’ve heard about. Not even the worst. The worst being one where the fecal matter was being expelled through the patient’s mouth. Yeck!