NOT JUST THE AK-47

New penis grown on boy's arm (Annanova, 8/16/01)

Doctors have grown a new penis on a Russian boy's arm after he lost his old one in a bizarre accident.

The 16-year-old, named only as Malik, lost his penis after receiving an electric shock while urinating on an electric wire.

Big deal; every time Senator Clinton walks into a room with her husband people say she has one on her arm.

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Texas Man Wakes Up After Operation, Penis Missing ((Reuters, Aug 28, 2003)

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. [...]

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. [...]

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.

As long as they left him an arm it's apparently reversible. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 28, 2003 5:05 PM