Places to Never Visit: Romania
Sometimes you just read things that make you want to cry. Things so horrible, they defy explanation.
Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.
Can you imagine being one of the nursing staff? Did any of them try to stop him? Surely someone on the staff realized that this is not how the surgery was meant to go. If you don’t speak up, who will?
They said he had been under stress and had lost his temper after he accidentally cut the man’s urinary channel and ‘overreacted’ to the situation. He told the court it was a temporary loss of judgement due to personal problems.
Well that explains everything. The rest of the article is extremely interesting in that it focuses mostly on the Romanian Doctors Union quibbling over who should pick up the tab for damages. Also of note is the caption for the picture in the article that reads, “Now, you might feel a little prick.” Thanks for being sensitive guys.
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 1/17/2007
