- (AFP) -- A Romanian surgeon underwent a fit of madness
while operating on a patient's testicles and cut off the man's penis and
sliced it into three pieces, hospital officials said on Friday.
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- The surgeon, Naum Ciomu, was described as a senior member
of the hospital staff and a professor of anatomy.
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- He had been operating on a 34-year-old man for a testicular
malformation when he committed the act, the officials said.
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- "We are shocked by what has happened. It is the
first time we have had such a case," said Sorin Oprescu, head of the
Bucharest emergency hospital where the patient was rushed for emergency
reconstructive surgery.
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- Romanian plastic surgeon Ioan Lascar said he would try
to restore the man's urinary function, but that he was unlikely to recover
normal sexual activity.
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- The medical council has banned Dr Ciomu from entering
an operating theatre for two months pending the results of an investigation.
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- Meanwhile, the wife of the unfortunate patient said she
was suing Dr Ciomu.
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