Lawsuit over inmate's flesh-eaten groin
In 2004, ex-con Charles Manning, 61, was infected in prison by a flesh-eating bacteria that ate away at his groin. Prison doctors first thought he was just having an allergic reaction. He sued and the Washington Department of Corrections settled by giving him $300,000. From the Associated Press:
By the time he was taken to a hospital, Manning had an internal abscess that required doctors to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region."Wash. prisons, inmate settle disfigured groin case" (Thanks, Scott Compton!)
Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.
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I hate it when that happens.
I'm rarely one to make demands on another's site, but for the love of all things holy and divine we need a UNICORN CHASER RIGHT NOW!
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"Manning, here's some Cruex, now stfu."
300k = bargain.
Yeah, I think my penis is worth more than $300,000. To me at least.
Add this to the endless list of reasons I never want to go to prison.
"Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh."
Yeah, good luck with that.
*shudders*
Awaits unicorn chaser.
What kind of "allergic reaction" causes a penis to fall off or deteriorate? Fail.
I think my penis is worth more than $300,000
$300K sounds pretty good right now, and I'm not really using mine. I hate it when body parts fail the cost-benefit analysis.
One of my in-laws had spent time in prison and added up with a Brown Recluse bite. The doctors had brushed it off as well, but luckily no real harm came from the bite.
I'd say 1.2 million is a good number. This thing gets a lot of use but is still in pretty good shape.
In the spirit of prompting unicorn chasers for the previous commenters, pics or it didn't happen!
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee230/piquiqts/unicorn.jpg
I read the name, and yet I click on the link anyway. Seems morbidity spawns morbid curiosity.
$300K probably did not come close to paying for all the treatments and hospitalization, I'm guessing. That stuff is horrible.
Once upon a time my dad got a brown recluse bite on his arm, and it got infected. His regular (elderly) doc kept blowing him off. Mom finally took him to her doctor -- he diagnosed and managed to start treatment before the infection went over the edge.
This thread is useless without pics.
While it doesn't say what the cause was, my guess is this was MRSA - currently at epidemic levels in prisons. They generally have done a rather poor job of containing this problem. It's become more of a focus now that it is also hitting a lot of the guards - go figure.
add on to my last post:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/69576/
pictures? really? really, really sure? eaten lately? prone to nightmares?
just google images:
necrotizing fasciitis
MRSA is galloping because it costs money to clean properly. No one cares if prisoners die and even in hospitals the janitorial budget is at the bottom of the pile.
Know anyone with C.Difficile?
I'm short on fresh unicorn chasers right now, but I've got some old goodies. Your choice: great sports moves, or Chmurka the extremely cute hamster.
My wife is a RN and has had more than one patient with necrotizing fasciitis, nasty stuff that. Seeing that my wife is also HIV pos, she doesn't like to work on those poor bastards that have it, and thank Dog for negative pressure environments!
Concerning pictures:
I'm not sure that those of you who are calling for pictures are entirely sincere. I suspect you want other people to ill-advisedly look at pictures of MRSA infections. If so, may you be disappointed.
If someone absolutely has to see a picture of an MRSA infection, there's a fairly eloquent one here. Do not look at it if you're prone to getting grossed out. That thing could make a pathologist skip lunch.
Bluraven @8, it wasn't an allergic reaction. It was MRSA that was initially mistaken for an allergic reaction. That was bad luck. MRSA moves fast.
MRSA - DO NOT WANT
mein gotts, that is one cute hamster!
MRSA, nobody wants.
do not want? Good, then advocate capital punishment for doctors who over-prescribe antibiotics, for patients that don't finish the full course, for makers and buyers of "antibacterial" daily products that are just godsdamned silly and for the useless government "oversight" that permitted the current situation.
OK I may be way out of line here, but is that hampster preparing to auto felate? Because if it is, if that's whats happening, then you're not helping. I'm off for a cup of tea and a little lie down.
$300,000 is much closer to fair for a 61 year old rather than a 21 year old.
Takuan, I have long wondered why anything that has escaped oversight is called an oversight. I blame the committee.
That said, the bacteria were here first.
but we taught them.
Sounds like Fournier's Gangrene (necrotising fasciitis of the groin). That tends to be caused by a mixed infection of various bacteria including Bacteroides, E Coli, Streptococci and Staphylococci, so not really just MRSA. If it started in gaol he's lucky to be alive to sue...
I was once involved in the care of a young guy who had such extensive necrotising fasciitis that he required daily trips to the operating theatre for wound debridements for a whole week, losing new dead bits and pieces each time. While he was on Intensive Care we referred to him as "The hemi-corporectomy man" and if you can work that one out you'll need the unicorn chaser.
#16 Brettspiel
"This thread is useless without pics."
I suggest the alternative - the only thing keeping this thread passing its SAN check is the lack of pics.
I've actually had MRSA, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I spent a horrible month of my life terrified I'd end up with one foot.
http://www.howtodothings.com/health-fitness/how-to-prevent-mrsa
I actually got a rather bad MRSA infection in both of my breasts after my daughter was born. The hospital treated me like I had the plague, and I like to think they did a good job of containing my infection. It's a scary scary thing to have.
there is a certain irony in how hospitals so slowly and painfully earned their way up from popular reputation as charnel houses and over time are in danger of slipping back to that again.
I loved how the prison administration thought that it was originally just a side effect of a cold medicine that he took. Now I'm just imagining a commercial for some prescription medicine that lists your penis rotting off as one of the side effects, haha.
As far as pics, I'm imagining it looking like that scene in Planet Terror with Quentin Tarantino playing the jail guard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sZBylTeuc
(Relevant footage starting around 7:08. WARNING! not recommended for sensitive viewers. In fact, not recommended for anyone, ever, period. In fact, I wish I hadn't just watched it again myself.)
WASH YOUR HANDS!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008396215_mrsaday1.html