Accused doctor removed clitoris: court
SMH.com - A doctor said a patient's husband was dead so it did not matter that he removed her clitoris during an operation, a Sydney jury has been told. Theatre nurse Sharon Demmery said she remembered the 2002 operation because of the large size of the tissue that was taken from the patient. She was giving evidence in the NSW District Court today at the trial of a doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons. He has pleaded not guilty to maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm (GBH) on Carolyn DeWaegeneire with intent to cause her GBH in August 2002. He also denies an alternative charge of maliciously inflicting GBH on the then 58-year-old widow. The Crown alleges the doctor did not have the patient's consent to remove her genitals, but the defence says he was trying to save Ms DeWaegeneire's life. She told the jury the doctor informed her he was going to remove a lesion but did not mention anything else. She had sought treatment for a small patch of discoloured skin on her labia, later identified as a form of pre-cancer. Ms Demmery said she noticed a "very large amount of tissue" was being removed during the operation. "I said 'That is fairly radical' and he said 'Yes, if I didn't take that much, the cancer would spread,'" Ms Demmery said. She said something came up about the clitoris and she said she told the doctor: "You wouldn't be taking my clitoris, no matter what. "He then said that the patient's husband was dead so it did not matter anyway." The nurse said all the patient's external genitalia were taken. She said the consent form for the operation said "simple vulvectomy", which she understood involved taking a small sample from the lesion area and taking a small margin around it. She said she did not consider the surgery undertaken coincided with the operation described on the consent form. The trial is continuing before Judge Greg Woods.
This Doctor Death dude sounds like a real prick, huh? Someone needs to tell old sawbones here that you can't just go around whacking of clits because your wife thinks you suck in bed or you have a little dick or you can't last long or you don't know how to give a woman the big "O" or you only get ugly chicks or you're secretly gay or you dress like a woman or a priest fucked you up when you were young or you have herpes or your nuts smell like ass-cheese or whores won't even take your money or your mommy touched you or you fuck goats on weekends. Just because you have issues, don't take it out on others. Bang. Pay the fuck attention!
