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Enlargement made penis smaller, court told
From AAP
03jul01
A PENILE enlargement operation left a man with a shorter, painful and deformed penis as well as two months of sleepless nights due to constant erections, a Sydney court was told.
Wayne Collings, 53, is suing Sydney plastic surgeon, Dr Peter Haertsch, for allegedly failing to warn him of the risks involved in the procedure carried out four years ago.
He claims the surgeon had assured him the phalloplasty and dermal fat graft would give him a 3cm increase.
Instead, the operation resulted in "penile retraction" of 2 or 3cm, "an aching, throbbing" sensation at the base of the shaft - particularly during sex - and a deformed penis bearing unsightly "grooves".
Two-thirds of his appendage is now so numb "if you dragged a pin-like object across the skin it would feel dead," Mr Collings said, likening the sensation to a dentist's injection.
He was also left with "grotesque" scars on his buttocks where Dr Haertsch had made an incision.
In the wake of the procedure, he developed an infection in his penis which left him with discharge and a lump the size of an egg on the right side.
He also had trouble sleeping.
"I was in constant pain throughout the day and the night ... because of continuous erections," Mr Collings told the NSW District Court.
Dr Haertsch, who performed the $10,000 operation at Westside Private Hospital, Concord, in Sydney's west, in March 1997, has yet to respond to the allegations.
Mr Collings told the court he was shocked and "sort of horrified" when the plastic surgeon told him he would have to wear stainless steel weights to correct the penile retraction and give him the desired 3cm boost.
"I had a nightmare that night," he said.
However he wore them for 24 hours a day over five or six weeks but gave up when he saw no improvement.
Then Dr Haertsch suggested corrective surgery.
"I was just terrified. It's just the fact that Dr Haertsch just seemed to be out of his depth in this procedure.
"I had a lot of misgivings about whether I was going to have another retraction or whether it was going to be successful," Mr Collings said.
He is suing the surgeon for unspecified damages plus expenses of more than $30,000, including $17,000 for corrective surgery and $4,000 for psychiatric treatment.
He has also accused Dr Haertsch of negligence in "failing to perform (the operation) in accordance with the standard of care and skill of an ordinary skilled specialist plastic surgeon".
The hearing before Judge James Black continues.
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From AAP
03jul01
A PENILE enlargement operation left a man with a shorter, painful and deformed penis as well as two months of sleepless nights due to constant erections, a Sydney court was told.
Wayne Collings, 53, is suing Sydney plastic surgeon, Dr Peter Haertsch, for allegedly failing to warn him of the risks involved in the procedure carried out four years ago.
He claims the surgeon had assured him the phalloplasty and dermal fat graft would give him a 3cm increase.
Instead, the operation resulted in "penile retraction" of 2 or 3cm, "an aching, throbbing" sensation at the base of the shaft - particularly during sex - and a deformed penis bearing unsightly "grooves".
Two-thirds of his appendage is now so numb "if you dragged a pin-like object across the skin it would feel dead," Mr Collings said, likening the sensation to a dentist's injection.
He was also left with "grotesque" scars on his buttocks where Dr Haertsch had made an incision.
In the wake of the procedure, he developed an infection in his penis which left him with discharge and a lump the size of an egg on the right side.
He also had trouble sleeping.
"I was in constant pain throughout the day and the night ... because of continuous erections," Mr Collings told the NSW District Court.
Dr Haertsch, who performed the $10,000 operation at Westside Private Hospital, Concord, in Sydney's west, in March 1997, has yet to respond to the allegations.
Mr Collings told the court he was shocked and "sort of horrified" when the plastic surgeon told him he would have to wear stainless steel weights to correct the penile retraction and give him the desired 3cm boost.
"I had a nightmare that night," he said.
However he wore them for 24 hours a day over five or six weeks but gave up when he saw no improvement.
Then Dr Haertsch suggested corrective surgery.
"I was just terrified. It's just the fact that Dr Haertsch just seemed to be out of his depth in this procedure.
"I had a lot of misgivings about whether I was going to have another retraction or whether it was going to be successful," Mr Collings said.
He is suing the surgeon for unspecified damages plus expenses of more than $30,000, including $17,000 for corrective surgery and $4,000 for psychiatric treatment.
He has also accused Dr Haertsch of negligence in "failing to perform (the operation) in accordance with the standard of care and skill of an ordinary skilled specialist plastic surgeon".
The hearing before Judge James Black continues.
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