The UK’s Daily Mail and Miami New Times have reported that a physician, who had previously defended himself of criminal charges for selling prescription drugs, is now named in a second medical malpractice lawsuit for penis amputations.
Dr. P.P., a practicing urologist in Miami, is accused of negligence in amputating a man’s penis instead of curing the patient of his genital blisters. The victim is named “Hank”.
Allegedly Dr. P.P. is in the midst of another medical malpractice lawsuit. In that suit a man has accused him of amputating his penis when an implant operation went wrong.
Past allegations made against Dr. P.P., aside from the two lawsuits, have been charges for organized fraud and racketeering. The Miami New Times reported that the incidents – selling prescription drugs – took place inside the Play Pen strip club. Dr. P.P. is allegedly a partner in the strip club.
Hank, while in jail for DUI three years ago, developed blisters on his penis. Dr. P.P. was the first to treat him. The patient then submitted to several operations, with the final surgery – performed by Dr. P.P. – resulting in a “partial penectomy.”
Along with Dr. P.P., Hank, 51, has also named the Florida Department of Correction (DOC) and six other doctors as negligent.
Hank told reporters what he discovered after the forth and final surgery: “When I woke up, I had a hose run up inside me, and everything else was cut off — completely amputated.”
Dr. P.P. stated that any negligence was on the part of Hank’s “actions or omissions” alone.
Hank developed the blisters during a two-year stay at the Okeechobee Correctional Institution. In 2009 he was sent to South Miami’s Larkin Community Hospital where he began receiving treatment from Dr. P.P.
Hanks said that Dr. P.P. stripped the organ of any contaminated tissue by debriding it. Afterwards, Dr. P.P. stitched it up and packed it with gauze. Dr. P.P. reportedly attached three strings to the gauze to pull if off like a tampon – which was supposed to happen in five days.
Instead, it is claimed that in an effort to cut costs to the DOC, Hanks was transferred to Kendall Regional Medical Center. Physicians there, per reports, were confused about Dr. P.P.’s treatment but were unable to locate him. The five day-period came and went and the gauze stayed in place for almost three weeks.
At that time Hank’s penis had allegedly developed gangrene symptoms. A urologist at Kendall treated him on July 17 and removed the gauze. During the next three weeks at Kendall Hank had two surgeries. On August 14, the first time Hank has seen Dr. P.P. again, the doctor inspected his penis and scheduled him for surgery in three more days.
It was at that surgery that Hank’s penis was amputated.
Hank told reporters: “I don't think they have enough money to pay me for what they've done to me. They can never replace it. They can't give me a rubber leg. I don't know what they'd put there.”
In Dr. P.P.’s criminal case he was ordered to have counseling, pay costs and cover fines to maintain his medical license.
In August of 2007 a patient of Dr. P.P.’s also developed gangrene in his penis. The patient, E.M., had sought Dr. P.P. for a penile implant procedure. In that suit Dr. P.P. claimed that the patient failed to follow post-operative instructions.
The lawsuit claims that Dr. P.P. “breached his duty of care... resulting in pain, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish.”
Contact a medical malpractice attorney whenever you have been harmed, instead of helped, by a physician.