Typically, if someone says ‘stop,’ that’s a sign that they want the other party to cease what they’re doing, right? Unfortunately, it seems like a surgeon in Alabama doesn’t understand what ‘stop’ means as he cut into a patient during a vasectomy while he begged, yelling and cursing, for the doctor to stop. Meanwhile, the physician thoughtlessly continued the surgery and would just say, “You’re ok,” and “It’ll hurt more if I stop than if I keep going.” Needless to say, the patient was both mentally and physically traumatized: “From the first cut, to the final suture, I felt every single thing he did.”
Even though the patient told the doctor immediately from the start that he felt everything that was happening, the surgeon ignored and dismissed any comments about pain. Besides the nightmare that was the surgery, the patient now complains he has “serious ED issues,” which never happened prior to the vasectomy. “Is this a malpractice suit?” he asks Reddit, considering his options for taking legal action against the doctor. It’s a mystery why the patient never bothered contacting anyone after such a traumatic incident, but better now than never.
“If you said stop and he didn’t, there’s an assault charge case! Let alone a malpractice one!” a Reddit user exclaimed. “A man restricting me and slicing me open while I am yelling for him to stop sure sounds like a police matter,” they continued. “I would file a police report if this was me.” Many call for the patient to contact an attorney or lawyer about the malpractice incident. If the doctor was taken to court, he could lie, saying the patient was properly sedated and just delusional. Luckily, a witness was present during the surgery and saw the whole thing — an assistant nurse.
The patient accounted that he “started hyperventilating, and the nurse had to make him [the doctor] stop for a second before I passed out.” She also realized how big a mistake the surgeon had made, as she apologized profusely after the doctor left the room following the surgery. Hopefully, she’ll be a help in the patient’s case against the surgeon. No doctor should ever perform surgery when their patient is yelling in pain for them to stop.
