This was most definitely not what the doctor ordered.
An Iowa medical center mistakenly gave a man a vasectomy, instead of the circumcision he requested. As a result, he can no longer have kids — a travesty he took to court, winning him $2 million.
The patient, a 38-year-old Burmese man named Zaw Zaw, had been referred to the Iowa Clinic in December 2015 to have his foreskin snipped. Due to his limited English, the patient was provided a referral form that clearly said “circumcision” three times, his attorney, Marc Harding, told WhoTV.
Despite the crystal-clear instructions, in January 2016 the doctor performed a vasectomy — which would sterilize him. When asked about the botched operation, the interpreter reportedly said, “We filled out that it was to cut the skin,” Harding claimed. They have since shredded the document, Harding said.
“Zaw Zaw never understood what they were trying to get across,” said Harding, who blames the doctor for not vetting their interpretation before “cutting the body.”
Nonetheless, a jury awarded the mistakenly sterilized soul $2 million, citing that they’d divided culpability 70/30 between doctor and patient.
In response to the jury’s decision, the Iowa Clinic told WhoTV, “It is important to note, the physician involved in this case has not been on staff with the clinic for more than a year.”
The case was one of two lawsuits levied against the clinic over the past several months, which resulted in a total of $15 million in payouts, reports Fox2now.
Zaw Zaw plans on getting the vasectomy reversed and will receive a circumcision elsewhere.
Still, it could’ve been worse. In September, a botched circumcision left a British man with an “extremely buried penis” that prevented him from having sex altogether.



