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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:08 AM
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Patients Say Doctor Left Them With Deformed Penises
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The 44-year-old married Chicago man was lured in 2003 by the promise of a longer and thicker penis.

Thousands of dollars and multiple surgeries later, the man has something "that doesn't even resemble a penis," said his attorney, Lawrence Griffin. "It's absolutely grotesque."

Dozens of Chicago men have the same shrunken deformities, and each alleges Dr. Sheldon Burman was the one who convinced them his surgery could provide them with something that nature did not.

But based on the repeated horror stories emerging from his Male Sexual Dysfunction Clinic at 3401 N. Central Ave. -- 45 malpractice claims have been filed against Burman -- state officials recently moved to revoke his medical license.

It is one of the state's first revocation requests against a doctor for a "pattern of practice" showing "incapacity or incompetence to practice," according to revocation records, which add that Burman engaged in a practice to "deceive, defraud or harm the public."

That action comes after millions of dollars in judgments against Burman and his clinic, and as the American Urological Association labeled the penis-enlargement procedure he promotes as unsafe.

" has got a track record of a lot of horrendous acts," said attorney Robert Strelecky, whose Clifford Law Offices recently won a $454,000 verdict against Burman on behalf of a 57-year-old Chicago man whose small intestine was punctured while fat was drained from his abdomen so it could be injected into his penis, enlarging it.

Burman said he stands by every one of the thousands of procedures he estimates he's done since 1981.

He knows there are critics who say he's selling fantasies to those with self-esteem issues and acknowledges a majority of his patients have normal-sized penises.

But he swears by the vacuum and stretching devices available on his Web site, www.lengthandgirth.com, and vows his surgeries can provide a penis with an extra half-inch of length and a 50 percent increase in girth.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-doc25.html
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:32 AM
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1. It's not how deformed it is, it's how you use it.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:28 AM
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2. ...
:rofl:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:04 PM
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7. GAAAAAAAAAH!
:scared:

I'm glad mine's properly formed... (of course, who gets to use it? :spray: )
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:17 PM
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9. Not funny. I went in for one of those operations and he replaced it with a
Japanese meal.


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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:27 PM
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10. Let me guess what the Chairman picked as the secret ingredient.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:45 AM
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3. Why anyone would willingly allow a scalpel near there is beyond me.
Loonies.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 10:05 AM
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4. What about this gem...
"Burman, 80, was once a well-respected heart surgeon until a 1981 car accident limited his mobility and he began operating on penises."

WTF?
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 10:21 AM
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5. Naturally, I had to check out that website
Penis Stretcher Device $495.00?

There's a sucker born every minute.

By the way, IBTL.

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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 10:27 AM
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6. no IBTL's necessary
for this is Matcom News :D
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:15 PM
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8. The court demands before and after pictures
please.
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