:o you have my sympathy pwnage...:gumba:

DALLAS (Reuters) - An out-of-court settlement has been reached in the case of a North Texas man who woke up from bladder surgery only to find that doctors had amputated his penis without permission, lawyers say.

Terms of the out-of-court settlement were not disclosed but Hurshell Ralls, 67, had been seeking over $5 million (3 million pounds) in a civil suit he filed in Wichita Falls, Texas, against the two doctors who removed his penis. They did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement.

The hospital where the surgery was performed was also named in the suit.

Ralls' attorney Steve Briley said on Thursday that his client was having surgery in 1999 to remove a cancerous bladder, which would likely include the removal of his prostate gland.

He contends that doctors removed Ralls' penis after they mistakenly thought the cancer had spread to the male sex organ. He charged the doctors -- John S. Dryden and Farid Khoury -- with not seeking consent for the penis amputation and negligence.

He also said a pathology test indicated that Ralls' penile tissue was not cancerous.

Joel Steed, the attorney who represented the doctors, said Dryden had informed Ralls that his penis might have to be removed to treat the cancer he had in his bladder. He also questioned the results of the pathology tests on the amputated penis.

Steed said during surgery the two doctors saw tissue indicating the cancer spread from the bladder to the urethra, and they felt removing the penis would provide the best chance for Ralls' survival.

Hearings in the case before a jury of eight men and four women had started earlier this week and were underway when the out-of-court settlement was reached.

Ralls and his wife have not been able to recover from the anger and shock they felt after the surgery, his attorney said.

"Mr. Ralls was not informed that he was going to wake up and not have a penis," Briley said.

:shocked: what an alarming thing to wake up to :unf:

poor guy, eh souldve gotten 8 good more years outta the thing too, being 67 and all.

constant usage of viagra will eventually cause it to fall off anyway..

*chikichicky whistles

yep, so men better watch out :yessir:

:shocked:
owie owie owie that sucks, but at that age it just hangs there like a lump of dead skin so it's not like he is going to miss out on anything.
Now he'ds going to need tubes coming out of his body to cleanse it of wastes since he can't just pee it out anymore.

reminds me of myself when I woke up to no arms and a plate for a butt...

I already saw this news bit thx to www.fark.com
fark got assortment of funny to sick to cool news bits everyday selected from buncha news sites I think

Wow, a little bit ironic, don't you think? First, he was poor, but had a penis, now, he is rich and don't have a penis.
Gee, in this case, I'm so glad to be poor :D

lol Berlim...

Yeah, I think I got it off of Yahoo News or something... but hey you don't get to live much longer, why not live without something o.O' Experience the no life! muhahaha :boxing:

Lose the only (and rare, nowadays, some kind of 'dryspell') thing besides TFC that makes my miserable life worth living? No, thnkx :D


p.s. this banana-dude :banana: rulz! I bet he scores more than me! :angry:

he works around the clock.. into overtime and has no rest... what are you capable of? lol go banana! :banana: :banana: :banana: