Flesh-Eating Bacteria Consumed Man's Penis After Surgery

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DORAL, Fla. – A man suing after a major medical mistake left him disfigured gave testimony Thursday that revealed the intimate details of his misery.

Late Thursday afternoon, Enrique Milla testified at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse from his new home in Lima, Peru via Skype. He said he wanted a penile implant to improve his sex life in 2007. "About a year before I realized I had problems," Milla said through a translator. "I had problems having intimate relations with my wife. As time went by, that problem got worse."

Milla's attorney argues that an anesthesiologist overlooked his client's pre-existing medical conditions, which resulted in Milla having no more external male genitalia. According to the lawyer, Milla should have never been allowed to undergo elective penile implant surgery to treat erectile dysfunction back in August 2007.

The anesthesiologist involved in the surgery, Dr. Laurentia Boeru, should have never allowed the surgery, the attorney said, because Milla had an extreme case of diabetes and high blood pressure, and his blood sugar levels were way too high on the day of his surgery. He had not seen a doctor in 15 years until that point. "Did he take your blood pressure?" asked the attorney of Milla.


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[liberal N proud]

1. OUCH!

[Chemisse]

2. This suit doesn't even make sense.

Why would this guy sue the anesthesiologist?

It sounds like he took pretty lousy care of himself and is now trying to blame the outcome on others.

[physioex]

3. I don't know the full circumstances from this article....

But the patient would have been intially seen by a urologist for this problem. The urologist would take his history and his complaint and based on comorbidities had the patient worked up by a Primary Care Physician. And the PCP would have then taken the responsibility of managing his diabetes and blood pressure perhaps even referred to other specialists like an endocrinologist for his diabetes. When his comorbidities are finally controlled, he would go have the surgery. The anesthesiologist is the final person who gives a green light to the sugery. Obviously this is a very complicated decision for example you would not do work up on a patient for a gun shot wound. But in this case the procedure could have waited for a proper work up, then the anesthesiologist as well as the surgeon can be held responsible.

The real underlying problem is the patient had poor primary care and the urologist should have had the patient immediately referred and the anesthesiologist should have been the final safety check. So in the end it was probably a series of failures that led to this.

[marybourg]

4. If they had brought his diabetes

under control the e.d. might have improved to the point where he no longer needed surgery. Oh, wait . . .

[physioex]

6. Point taken....

Not treating the underlying problem.

[Chemisse]

8. I had no idea an anaesthesiologist held that level of responsiblity.

[SwampG8r]

5. that happened to me too

they were finally able to stop it but you should have seen this thing before that all happened
it was very impressive i can assure you

[kestrel91316]

7. If he had spent his money on routine care and treating his diabetes and

hypertension rather than spending it on a penile implant, he wouldn't have had this problem. What a fool.

An equal fool is any doctor involved who didn't do a proper presurgical workup, which would have uncovered diabetes and hypertension if they were present.