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BumRushDaShow

(144,203 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 06:15 AM Nov 30

New Mexico man awarded $412 million medical malpractice payout for botched penile injections

Source: CNN US

Updated 6:20 PM EST, Fri November 29, 2024


Albuquerque, New Mexico AP — Jurors in New Mexico have awarded a man more than $412 million in a medical malpractice case that involved a men’s health clinic that operates in several states. The man’s attorneys celebrated Monday’s verdict, saying they are hopeful it will prevent other men from falling victim to a scheme that involved fraud and what they described as dangerous penile injections.

They said the punitive and compensatory damages total the largest amount to ever be awarded by a jury in a medical malpractice case in the U.S. “It’s a national record setting case and it’s righteous because I don’t think there’s any place for licensed professionals to be defrauding patients for money.

That is a very egregious breach of their fiduciary duty,” said Lori Bencoe, one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiff. “That’s breach of trust and anytime someone is wearing a white coat, they shouldn’t be allowed to do that.” The award follows a trial held in Albuquerque earlier this month that centered on allegations outlined in a lawsuit filed by the man’s attorneys in 2020. NuMale Medical Center and company officials were named as defendants.

According to the complaint, the man was 66 when he visited the clinic in 2017 in search of treatment for fatigue and weight loss. The clinic is accused of misdiagnosing him and unnecessarily treating him with “invasive erectile dysfunction shots” that caused irreversible damage.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/us/new-mexico-jury-award-botched-penile-injections/index.html

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wolfie001

(3,844 posts)
2. I sure as hell hope Government Healthcare dollars aren't being wasted on this horsesh7t
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 07:46 AM
Nov 30

I'm not reading that article and that's all I have to say. ...........................

Hotler

(12,388 posts)
3. Again, a dick is worth more than a womans reproductive system. I would have bet that the largest malpractice award
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 10:27 AM
Nov 30

would have been over a botch women's operation somewhere and not on a limp dick. Seems to me this guy just made a poor consumer choice or, it was Gods will.

Hotler

(12,388 posts)
6. I had to look that shit up. What a bunch of freaks. Part of Scotchish Football, "he's on the monkey glands"
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 02:53 PM
Nov 30

used when a player is performing real well.

pansypoo53219

(21,789 posts)
5. as my color me macho book said. "it's not the organ, its how its played."
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 12:43 PM
Nov 30

he needed a new tune. bet he tried to do ED on the cheap.

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