CHICAGO (STNG) - A Northwestern Memorial Hospital obstetrician is being sued for allegedly botching a circumcision of a 1-day-old baby and cutting off a portion of the infant’s penis.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court by David Burden on behalf of his son Daniel Burden, claims that on Oct. 5, 2007, one day after Daniel was born, Dr. Marc Feldstein performed a circumcision on the boy. However, rather than removing only the foreskin, the doctor cut and removed a portion of the baby’s penis, the suit said.
After the procedure, baby Daniel was transferred to Children’s Memorial Hospital to have emergency corrective surgery.
Burden accuses Dr. Feldstein, Northwestern Women’s Health Associates and Northwestern Memorial Hospital of medical negligence. The suit asks for more than $50,000.
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