Chicago Law Suit

[baybee]

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/lo...227194628.html
<http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_227194628.html>

Aug 15, 2006 6:42 pm US/Central
Doctors, Hospital Sued Over Botched Circumcision Couple Alleges
Procedure Was Performed To Son Without Their Consent
(STNG) CHICAGO In a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday,
the parents of a 2-year-old boy say the circumcision performed on him
when he was born was not only unwanted and unnecessary, but resulted in
the loss of one of the boy's testicles because of the surgical team's
negligence.

The boy, Liam Barton, was born to Eric and Nicole Barton on Aug. 15,
2004, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the suit said. The couple never
asked doctors to perform a circumcision on Liam.

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The suit seeks damages in excess of $50,000.

[cfiddlinmama]

WOW! Poor baby! I hope they win!

[baybee]

Let's circulate this story far and wide ---it sure counteracts the HIV crap.
Baybee

[ThomasL]

The link did not work.Do you have more info on the case?

[Yaliina]

Wow! What a tragedy- and so unnecessary. Just goes to show that we really need to step up efforts to get the message out that circumcision is *not* "normal" and "natural" by any means- and certainly not necessary or safe!! Poor kid- I hope they take that doc/hospital to the cleaners!

[Irish_Blue]

That poor baby

[Quirky]

Geez, I would add a couple of zeros onto that request for damages.....loss of the foreskin AND a testicle is worth more than 50 grand!!

[Jaydens_mom]

awwww! that is so sad... i agree, i hope they win!
And i hope that doctor(s) loses thier job!

[baybee]

I'm glad I snagged it early this a.m. because, apparently, the link is gone now.
I wonder if any of the local Chicago papers had it.
Baybee

[baybee]

here's what was in the Chicago Sun Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...s-metro16.html

Boy's parents sue doctors


A Chicago couple filed suit Tuesday against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and five doctors involved in their son's birth, saying negligence cost the boy a testicle. The couple said the doctors failed to perform "an appropriate physical examination" before circumcising the boy. Their failure to properly diagnose a series of conditions -- including testicular torsion and having a buried penis -- was coupled by the doctors' "failure to disclose the risks and benefits of circumcision" before it was done. The boy, now 2, had his right testicle destroyed during the procedure and it's now removed, according to the suit.

from the Chicago Sun Times Au 16/06


you have to scroll down the column to find it on that link. Baybee