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Man, you'd assume working in the Onco Surgery department would entail handling cancer patients.
Instead, here I am with a patient with plain old phimosis planned for the 'ol snip and dip diagnosed with "preputial stenosis", just to gussy it up so insurance doesn't complain.
Right, absolutely healthy young man, you haven't had any chemotherapy, radiotherapy or periods, period. You take no meds, you're not allergic to anything but showing me your dick, a sensible decision all concerned, and you shouldn't be in a ward filled with people recovering from losing their prostate, gallbladders and other miscellaneous organs they'll miss.
At least I shouldn't have to do all that fucking paperwork, I'm tempted to just get it over with myself in the ward but fuck it, I get my paycheck for sending him off to a fancy oncosurgeon as both desire.
Phimosis that's a new term for me, thanks. As a male circumcised in what are now considered the apparently barbaric old days when it was routine, I'd never even considered the condition as a thing.
I was circumcised for phimosis myself, likely unnecessarily.
Imagine my surprise as a kid when I went to the hospital for acute appendicitis and woke up again missing two very different but still quasi-vestigial organs. Very confusing, I'll tell you.
I can't say it's made any difference in my life.
They circumcised you when you went in for appendicitis, without your consent?
I was like 5-7 years old, so my consent wasn't legally required in any jurisdiction I'm aware of, or at least the US, UK and India. Parents can consent for just about anything a doctor recommends at those ages, or withhold it, though in the UK doctors are allowed to provide lifesaving treatment regardless of what parents say about it (for kids below the age of Gillick Competence who are not able to provide informed consent).
Besides, my parents are doctors themselves, so while they made an error in my case (my brother had phimosis too, he just grew out of it like most kids do), I imagine they had my best interests in mind and not the usual American standards where babies are circumcised as the "default", even if that's changing.
So no hard feelings. I'm more annoyed that they tricked me into entering the OR by telling me I'm going for a "color xray", which seemed immensely sus to me even at that age, but by the time I realized what was up there came the sedation. As a child who hated needles, I'd have said fuck you to the surgery, and would hence quite likely be dead. As for my dick, I prefer it this way, and apparently it gets me more blowjobs if my last few girlfriends are being honest.
Man, I wish I'd kept the appendix in a jar full of formaldehyde, if not the foreskin. Makes for a cool mantelpiece, I'll see if mine grew back.
I knew cuck porn from India about classy Brahmin girls falling in love with Muslim zubbs had some basis in reality!
I'm more concerned that in a sectarian war they'll ask me to drop my pants to check, but while I have no love lost for militant Hindus or Muslims, the former outnumber the latter and my penile disposition might be a nuisance.
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