Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Man sues after botched vasectomy

|
|
 
  
Published: May 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM

EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 23 (UPI) -- A Scottish man who lost both of his testicles after a botched vasectomy is asking a court to award him $2 million in damages.

Daniel Stalker, 51, a married father of four, said he has suffered "12 years of agony and hell" since the operation in 1996, The Sun reported Friday.

Stalker claims Dr. Paul Dewart continued with the vasectomy operation despite his screams, and didn't stop until the patient vomited from the pain of feeling a surgical instrument inside an "unanaesthetized" part of his scrotum.

The plaintiff said his testicles had to be cut off in 1998 after they "grew to the size of tennis balls."

"The money won't give me my life back and will not take away the pain but it will hopefully help my family," Stalker was quoted as saying in The Sun's article. "I feel for them as I've tried to take my own life five times. The pain really is unbearable."

© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The making of the Oscars Cheerleaders of 2012 The Chicago Auto Show
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China The Most Desirable Women of 2012 The best kisses
Additional Odd News Stories
Your Daily Horoscope
The almanac
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
There's vandalizing your school, and then there's doing a million dollars damage to your school
Police say Taylor Burnham, 18, was only wearing cowboy boots as she led police on a Sunday morning...
If you're working as a dog groomer and accidentally chop off a dog's ear, don't try to glue it back,...
After a two-year sting operation, the Feds shut down ... an Amish farm. Another victory in the war...
High school coach retires at 65 after getting arrested nude, "aroused" in car backseat with 17-year-old...
Man arrested for stealing $25k worth of Tide detergent. Witnesses say the suspect appeared quite...