Man, it is amazing what absurd situations you can get into due to your profession.
A couple of years back, while being up in the mountains with those cows and all, I came over an article about what I remember to have been a rumenian doctor. The text simply said that during a routine operation, the doctor suddenly lost his wit and with a clean cut chopped the patient's penis off, before proceding to neatly cut it into three peaces (the penis, not the patient). All while the patient's girlfriend was watching, btw.
Now that can trigger a latent hospital fear for sure, but then again - the news message I found at ananova.com today, proves that the fear might go both ways. A german gynecologist is, according to the writer, convicted to having to pay child support to a 25 year old patient and her boyfriend NOT - as I first assumed - because he got the girl pregnant, but because she got pregnant with her boyfriend despite the fact that the doctor had implanted some hormone prevention thingy in her arm (why the hell he chose the arm I dont know, but maybe there's a logical explanation).
What are doctors then, supernatural beings who may make mistakes?? The woman sued him on account of the fact that she could not afford having a child, and ALLTHOUGH SHE HAS GOTTEN A SECOND CHILD LATER THAT SHE -IS- PAYING FOR, the doctor has to pay for her firstborn until the child is 18. Sick, sick, sick. I would not paid a penny there, I'd rather go to jail or beat up the jury and the judge and then go to jail or something. Jeez. Germans.
