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- From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
- Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.104929.27513@netcom.com>
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- Distribution: alt.folklore.urban
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:49:29 GMT
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- randle@nosc.mil (Mike Randle) writes:
- >
- >I Recall reading about a medical mishap back in the late 70s (I think).
- >A doctor slipped up during a circumcision of a bouncing baby boy, and
- >recommended to the parents that he should have a sex change operation
- >and be rasied as a girl. Seems that the kid's fledgling manhood was
- >beyond repair. If I'm right, the doctor was in the military, and the
- >hospital may have been Trippler (Hawaii). Can anyone confirm this
- >incident, or is this just another urban legend? If it is true, whatever
- >became of him/her? What happened to the doctor?
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- I seem to recall, from about the same time period or a little later,
- this being a part of a television show or movie plot, and not
- necessarily based on fact. There was definitely a segment of "L.A. Law"
- dealing with a similar topic, but within the last 2 or3 years.
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- Bob "not even a fleeting thought of having mine reversed" O'Bob
-