BUCHAREST (AP) -- A court in Bucharest has ordered a Romanian surgeon to pay $795,000 in compensation to a patient whose penis he accidentally severed during an operation.
In July 2004, the doctor made a surgical error while operating on the man's testicles, severing the penis instead of making an incision to the testicle.
The Bucharest Magistrates Court ruled today that the physician had been ``superficial'' in his approach to the operation. It ordered the fine and handed down a one-year suspended prison sentence. The ruling can be appealed.
A piece of muscle from the man's arm has now been attached to where his penis was, but its function is aesthetic.
The man's lawyer says: ``You don't have to be an expert to realize that the 33-year-old victim does not have a good state of mind.''
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