Man sues hospital for genital mutilation. Should he get paid?
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2012/06/30 17:36:46
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A man in South Dakota is suing the hospital where he was circumcised as a newborn, saying he only recently became aware that he'd undergone the procedure and that it robbed him of his sexual prowess.
28-year-old Dean Cochrun is asking for $1,000 dollars in punitive damages from Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls. He claims an unknown doctor at the hospital, then named the Sioux Valley Hospital, led his mother to believe the procedure was medically necessary.
He argues the circumcision was not necessary, unethical and without medical benefit.
Should he get paid?
See full story at http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/62301/
Should he get paid?
See full story at http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/62301/
Top Opinion
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He should get paid.
You might later in life come to the decission that you didn't wanted the procedure be preformed on you.
However to start asking for punitive damages from the hospital is, I know it is a stereotype, is a very American thing to do.
The man has nerve, being in prison for kidnapping, to ask for damages.
I think he's got nerve to as for damages.
He has had 10 years to file the suit. The man is now in prison and looking for nothing but money out of boredom.
This guy must be very stoooooooooopid and all this proves is we are a
litigious society. Do you wonder what kind of a greedy lawyer would
even bring this suit into the court system?
Do you wonder why that increases the cost of health care......
just look at the $100,000s that doctors are forced to pay for health care.
Look at the cost to OB-GYN doctors and then wonder why some rural
communities don't even have that service anymore. It is too bad
that the Affordable Health Act did not consider this problem and did
nothing to address it even though the GOP tried to add amendments to the
bill.............. But then Lawyers are a very important donors to the Democrats;
so it is understandable but not excusable.
The damages they sometimes ask and they even get those amounts of money is beyond me.
Don't understand me wrong!
If a person has a claim for damages because something happened to him/her that is legally seen as wrong, a certain amount of money should be paid as damages. But the amounts paid in the US ar way over the moon.
It isn't about justice anymore, it is just for the money.