A Massachusetts hospital may soon find itself between a rock and a hard place.
One-time patient Daren Scott is suing the Yale-New Haven Hospital forfor neglect after he claims unattentive staff workers watched a baseball game on television rather than treating his painful erection.
Scott, who suffers from recurrent priapism, a rare disorder that causes the penis to remain painfully erect for more than four hours at a time, without sexual arousal, is seeking $2 million in damages.
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A bus driver, Scott was driving between New York and Boston in 2009 when a painful erection caused him to stop and seek medical attention. He first complains that, upon checking in, he was forced to re-park his bus, causing further pain to his penis.
I imagine that conversation went kind of like this at the reception desk:
Hello, what's your medical problem? Heart attack? OK, second door on the right, a doctor will be with you shortly. And you, ma'am, what's your medical problem? You're bleeding from the head? OK, right this way.
And you sir? You have a raging boner? OK, would you please go outside and park your bus on the far side of the lot?
Scott claims then claims that, while awaiting treatment, nurses and doctors neglected him and watched a baseball game on television. Upon complaining to them that the pain from his raging boner was worsening, they continued watching the baseball game.
Scott also claims that, when he was finally treated, a doctor misinjected him with no consultation of a urologist, and then forced to wait four hours before undergoing surgery.
If the allegations are true that the hospital gave him such a hard time, then you have to feel for Scott. But $2 million? That's seems a little stiff.
I can't help but think that this could have all been avoided had someone just referred him to the "Casual Encounters" section at Craigslist.
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