Man sues hospital after routine circumcision escalates to full penis amputation

A 56-year-old man said in a lawsuit that he was not warned that losing all of his penis would be a possibility.

14:57 25 July 2014

56-year-old Johnny Lee Banks Jr and his wife, 55-year-old Zelda Banks, are suing Princeton Baptist Medical Centre in Jefferson County Circuit Court in Birmingham after a routine circumcision escalated to full penis amputation.

In the lawsuit, Banks said that he was never warned by his doctors that the procedure can result in amputation and that he never gave his consent for a full or partial amputation.

His attorney said that Banks is “devastated.”

Why Mr Banks underwent an adult circumcision are still unknown, but the lawsuit confirmed that he had been receiving treatment from the Urology Centre of Alabama when he went for the procedure.

His legal representative added that aside from suffering from extreme pain due to the botched procedure, he is also spending time and money recovering in the hospital.

Banks is now seeking an unspecified dollar amount in the suit, which names the hospital, Urology Centers of Alabama, the Simon-Williamson Clinic, and two doctors as defendants.

A hospital spokesman, who said that the claim ‘lacked merit’, declined to provide any more information due to the on-going litigation.