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Angry doc cuts off patient's penis
Stuff.co.nz | Thursday, 18 January 2007

In a fit of rage, a Romanian doctor cut off a patient's penis during surgery and then proceeded to mutilate it.


The 36-year-old Romanian man had gone into Bucharest hospital to have corrective surgery on one of his testicles. During the operation, surgeon Naum Ciomu lost his temper, picked up a scalpel and hacked off the man's penis.

To the shock of the nursing staff, he then placed the penis on the operating table and proceeded to chop it into small pieces before storming out of the theatre, the Metro.co.uk website reported this week.

Afterwards, Ciomu claimed he had been under stress and lost his temper after he accidentally cut the man's urinary channel and 'overreacted'.

Ciomu has since had his medical license suspended and a Romanian court has ordered him to pay $NZ284,351 in damages to the man with the mutilated member.

The court also ordered the hospital to pay $NZ56,858 costs to the man to pay for the operation to rebuild his penis using tissue from his arm.