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elkid
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 Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:51 Post subject: RR MINS - DO NOT MOVE TO TEX-ASS!!!
Texas Man Wakes Up After Operation, Penis Missing
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 said on Thursday. Terms of the out-of-court settlement were not disclosed but Hurshell Ralls, 67, had been seeking over $5 million 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 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.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:54 Post subject:
<insert detachable penis joke here>
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akern
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:56 Post subject:
He should just ask for a bigger one. 
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:57 Post subject: that's all I can say..
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:57 Post subject:
All he wants is $5 million?
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kattzoo
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:58 Post subject:
If you saw this man, you'd know we were protecting the TX gene pool. A court had ordered him to move to PA, but a higher court said that was cruel and unusual punishment. Darn courts.
(I'm starting to think you have "Texas Envy")
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Pug
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:59 Post subject:
oh....HELL no! 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:00 Post subject:
What if they'd left it there and it had turned out to be cancerous? Could his estate have sued for >$5 million after his death?
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elkid
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:01 Post subject:
| kattzoo wrote: | If you saw this man, you'd know we were protecting the TX gene pool. A court had ordered him to move to PA, but a higher court said that was cruel and unusual punishment. Darn courts.
(I'm starting to think you have "Texas Envy") |
That's it, former winnah teammate. BIKE RACKS AT 5! And I'm bringing my snipers, 'cause I fight dirty. 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:04 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | <insert detachable penis song here> |
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my penis was missing again.
This happens all the time.
It's detachable.
detachable penis
This comes in handy a lot of the time.
I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
and the next morning I can't for the life of me
remember what I did with it.
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TimRuns
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:34 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | He should just ask for a bigger one. |
 
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:37 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | BIKE RACKS AT 5! And I'm bringing my snipers, 'cause I fight dirty. |
Snipers or snippers? 
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Pug
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:52 Post subject:
penis, penis, penis
penis all day long
penis, penis, penis
this is the penis song
I'm still cringing. Just the thought of waking up and whoops, my yipe is gone. Enough to give a grown man the cold sweats.
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kattzoo
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 18:26 Post subject:
My kids had to work in the Penal Code book today and they just found saying that hilarious. Next time I'm going to make them say "Penal" 100x before I give them the blasted book. (then they looked up all the sex crimes)
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