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Mom claims doctor botched newborn son’s circumcision

A mother claims that her newborn son’s penis was partially amputated and then thrown away during a circumcision gone terribly wrong and it turns out this is the doctor’s second time allegedly screwing up the routine procedure, court papers reveal.

Sandra Albano’s son was circumcised at one-day-old on Sept. 21 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island by Dr. Aaron Davidson, according to the Nassau County lawsuit filed on Thursday.

But Davidson and the hospital allegedly, “negligently amputated a significant portion of the penile glans extending into the urethra and then acted with carelessness and recklessness by throwing the amputated tissue into the hazard bin thus preventing it from being surgically reattached to the infant’s penis,” according to the court papers.

Further, Albano’s son, “will require one or more reconstructive surgeries and will suffer permanent and embarrassing disfiguring injuries,” the court documents say.





Albano’s lawyer, Gerry Grunsfeld said, “Something like this shouldn’t happen once and it certainly shouldn’t happen twice.”

“What is really mind boggling is that when this happened the tissue was allowed to be thrown in the garbage,” Grunsfeld said adding, “Right away it should have been seen that a very bad error was made and maybe we need to consult with a pediatric urologist about doing an emergency re-attachment.”

Grunsfeld said he hopes Davidson will receive retraining on the procedure.

Albano, of Wantagh, NY, is suing the hospital and the doctor for unspecified damages.

Court records show that this is not the first time that Davidson has allegedly messed up a circumcision.

Davidson was also sued in Nassau County in December 2016 by a parent of another child whose circumcision was also allegedly botched in 2013.





That case could proceed to jury trial on Nov. 15 if the parties don’t reach a settlement agreement first.

The 2016 lawsuit — filed by father Zishan Razzaq — claimed negligence by Davidson and North Shore for “failure to timely and properly perform surgical procedure known as circumcision upon the infant plaintiff.”

Razzaq’s wife said in a deposition that part of the cap of her son’s penis was “missing” after the Dec. 20, 2013 procedure — which caused the baby to bleed profusely and landed him in the ICU.

Similarly, a portion of the cap was also allegedly amputated in Albano’s son’s case.

Razzaq, reached by phone, told The Post he felt bad for Albano’s family learning they too were victims of Davidson’s negligent work. “It’s not fair to any family. I think [Davidson] should stop doing circumcisions,” Razzaq said.





Razzaq’s lawyer, Clifford S. Argintar, said in litigation, “What Dr. Davidson is saying is amputating a significant portion of the head of the penis is a risk of circumcisions and frankly it’s not.”

Davidson did not return messages left at his office. A lawyer who represents Davidson in the 2016 case declined to comment.

A spokesperson for North Shore, Terence Lynman, said the hospital has been dropped as a defendant in Razzaq’s case. Lynman declined to comment on Albano’s case.





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