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A 21-year-old man in South Africa has received the world’s first successful penis transplant and accepts the organ as his own, doctors said on Friday.
The operation took a team of surgeons nine hours and has allowed the patient to become sexually active.The man’s penis was amputated three years ago after a circumcision went wrong at a traditional initiation ceremony. The patient, who has not been named, received the new organ from a deceased donor on 11 December and has regained all functions.
Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of the urology division at Stellenbosch University, whose staff carried out the operation at Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, said the recipient is doing “extremely well” both physically and psychologically.
“The patient accepted the penis as his own,” he told the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA). “He told me in no uncertain terms that the fact it belonged to somebody else is completely out of his mind and he’s moved on with this as his own penis. That’s absolutely the way we want it.”
Source:The Guardian
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2015, @05:11PM
Here's an idea for improving solynet:
Convert all links in a summary to bounce off soylent first so that the system knows who at least clicked through to TFA. Any non-AC who clicks through and then waits at least X minutes before posting gets a +1 mod for "probably RTFA."
Not that such a scheme would be foolproof, but given all the rando dicking around we've had with the moderation system so far, that seems like a simple mechanical way to encourage more informed posts.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday March 15 2015, @10:47PM
At least touché got the accent.
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(Score: 2) by TLA on Monday March 16 2015, @08:21AM
it's not an accent, you're looking at es erection.
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