Malaysian doc slices off boy's penis during botched circumcision

[Microsoap]

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/n...cle/index_html

...said he was shocked when the medical assistant ran to him and apologised that he had accidentally severed his son’s penis.

A doctor then retrieved the sliced tip and put it on ice and rushed the boy in an ambulance to Sultanah Aminah Hospital. The tip was re-attached after a five-hour operation.

The father is keeping his fingers crossed as it will only be known tomorrow whether the surgery was successful...

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Holy !!! I think mine just retracted into my body while reading that story!

[Microsoap]

And this on a 10-year-old penis... a much bigger surface to do an "accurate" surgery on, and this is what happens!

And I don't want Western culture parents (Americans, Canadians) saying: "Oh, but this happened in Malaysia..." and blah, blah, like it has no direct connection to an American doctor doing the same type of procedure on an infant in America; to dismiss it like it's "primitive" medicine being practiced over there and the same results couldn't be duplicated here.

[aira]

Zainalabidin said Shahbuddin and his twin brother, Zaid Abidin, were among seven scheduled to be circumcised at 10am that day.

"Zaid was supposed to go first, but chickened out and convinced Shahbuddin to go first."

Boy, that kid's intuition is spot on...

The poor child. Trauma doesn't begin to describe it.

[TigerTail]

FWIW, I am campaigning to stop using the word 'botched' in these cases, as when a girl dies or is maimed (more than intended ) during her circumcision, no news source ever calls it 'botched'. Without fail, boys are 'botched' & girls are 'mutilated'. Every 'successful' & every 'botched' circumcision is a mutilation (& sometimes- hundreds a year- a murder).

[Arduinna]

I think the thread title could use a graphiic warning similar to those used in N&CE