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Post by SNK! on Oct 20, 2003 17:29:49 GMT -5
Reminds of this story I heard. This guy went to the hospital to have his tonsils out or something, but got castrated instead. What a zany mix-up. I'm more than a bit sure that that is just an urban legend. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking Also, castration is just removal of the testicles, and it is done due to testicular cancer, or other diseases. There are no cancers that require the removal of the actual penis, however, which leads me to believe, again, that the story is merely an urban legend.
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 20, 2003 18:16:54 GMT -5
I saw it on Oprah and they did an interview.
In case your wondering what I was doing watching Oprah, well: I usually read in upstairs in one of the rooms with a TV when Oprah is on. My mom always watches Oprah in her room. My sister was home sick that day sleeping in my parent's room. So my mom watched Oprah upstairs. I wasn't paying attention until I heard "...woke up without his penis". I guess castrate wasn't really the right word...
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Post by Ghosty on Oct 21, 2003 14:33:08 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure this is actually sad, but true, because i remember reading about this...
and it isn't really the surgeon's fault from my version... what happened was some idiot mixed up 2 patients, one of them needed to get their tonsils taken out... and the other well.. needed something a little lower gone, and well... yeah... it could've been only the testes, not the whole thing. (like snk was talking about)
of course just as likely is that i'm mixing it up with an urban legend like snk said...
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 21, 2003 15:55:00 GMT -5
Doctors make mistakes like that alot more often than people think. Remember hearing about that girl who died because she got the wrong type of blood in a transfusion?
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Post by Ghosty on Oct 21, 2003 19:31:05 GMT -5
Doctors make mistakes like that alot more often than people think. Remember hearing about that girl who died because she got the wrong type of blood in a transfusion? Yeah... it's a real problem.. I thought i also remembered something about how these red cross people forgot to check a bunch of people for AIDS and stuff... and they recieved blood and just dumped it in with everything else. Why would anyone with something like AIDS want to donate their blood anyhow....
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Post by Sektor on Oct 21, 2003 20:25:08 GMT -5
Why would anyone with something like AIDS want to donate their blood anyhow.... Wow, that happened a long time ago. The reason why people use to do that is because doctors use to pay doners like $10 each time they donated. Druggies and stuff would donate bad blood all the time just for the cash. That's basically the origin of bad blood. Today your blood test is actually checked before donated, unlike the olden days
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Post by Ghosty on Oct 21, 2003 23:52:21 GMT -5
Wow, that happened a long time ago. The reason why people use to do that is because doctors use to pay doners like $10 each time they donated. Druggies and stuff would donate bad blood all the time just for the cash. That's basically the origin of bad blood. Today your blood test is actually checked before donated, unlike the olden days No no no, when i said i rememberd something i didn't mean "the olden days" when we didn't know about stuff like AIDs too well... I mean fairly recently, like the nurses got lazy or something. Because isn't there a blood supply shortage going on right now or something? those druggies suck though... an extra $10 to contaminate the whole blood system....
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Post by SNK! on Oct 22, 2003 9:42:51 GMT -5
We must consider that 1 out of 3 HIV patients doesn't actually KNOW they have HIV, so it's likely they thought they had healthy blood...
Unfortunantly, that statistic is something I heard from one of those Ad Council commercials, so it's probably not true. (Ad Council lies more than anything else)But whether it's true or not, I'm sure you'll are agree with me that there is a number of people who don't know they have the virus.
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Post by Mr_Beardsly on Oct 22, 2003 15:36:01 GMT -5
Did you know that 78% of statistics are fake ...anways, How do you think those African countries with something like 70% infected poulations will ever survive. I heard the leader of one on the news once "...the amount of AIDs in our country is becoming a problem...", I was thinking "NO SHIT!". IMO any HIV is a problem.
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