One Rude Surprise...

**Orangeman** · August 12th, 2003, 07:06 PM

Aug. 11 -- After 67-year-old Hurshell Ralls went into surgery for bladder cancer, he came out of surgery missing more than he ever expected. His penis and testicles were gone.

"My wife had to hold my hand in the bed there. And she said 'Honey it's over. They got all the cancer.' And she waited a few minutes and then said 'But they had to remove your penis.' And I was one mad dude, you know," Ralls said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.

Ralls, a mechanic, says doctors never warned him or his wife that amputation of the penis and testicles might have been part of surgery before he went in for the procedure in November 1999. Ralls filed a negligence lawsuit against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, and the doctors who operated on him. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25.

I'd sue too. What do you think?

**Great White North** · August 12th, 2003, 07:15 PM

OUCH!!!

**+Daemon+** · August 12th, 2003, 07:27 PM

**delmer_1** · August 12th, 2003, 08:06 PM

wow....that has to suck

**silencio** · August 12th, 2003, 08:16 PM

Originally posted by delmer_1
wow....that has to suck

Not anymore.

**DocPC** · August 12th, 2003, 08:25 PM

Originally posted by silencio
Not anymore.

Werd.

**ilovetheusers** · August 12th, 2003, 09:49 PM

I'd sue them for eveything I could get. I'd have to actually think about getting the surgery knowing I might loose the package. Damn.

**imaeditedbysowulo** · August 12th, 2003, 10:26 PM

Originally posted by ilovetheusers
I'd sue them for eveything I could get. I'd have to actually think about getting the surgery knowing I might loose the package. Damn.

You would actually consider the surgery??? Ooooohh.

I'd have them remove as much as possible, steering far clear of the 2 nuts on the hot rod, u know like 5-6" away cuz doctors are bound to make mistakes so the more leeway you give them the better.

I'm afraid to ask how he urinates......they owe him some SERIOUS money!!!

**GokuSS2** · August 13th, 2003, 01:26 AM

Hey when it cums to cancer its your gender or your life.

Yeaa I know Baddddd joke.

**gazzak** · August 13th, 2003, 02:52 AM

If they hadn't removed ALL of the cancer he might not be alive now to sue them.

Not much point having a penis and being dead is there?

**paraflyer** · August 13th, 2003, 06:53 AM

What's worse, apparently they did test for cancerous cells, and didn't find any.

One HELL of a lawsuit coming up....

**Orangeman** · August 13th, 2003, 07:14 AM

Originally posted by paraflyer
What's worse,..............

Well we got some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that we saved your life....

The bad news is that life is not worth living.....

I can see where he might be mad. Although he doesn't, imho, have a chance. Ultimately the doctor saved his life. He probably also signed and emergency procedure form that allowed the doctor to do whatever measures he deemed necessary to complete the operation...