A Miami-Dade jury awarded $1.5 million to former South Beach bartender Patrick Timothy O'Neill, who said two urologists injured his penis while treating him for warts.
O'Neill, 43, filed suit in '98 against Drs. Bernardo Lederman and Jacob Cohen, along with South Beach Urological Associates.
Lederman ''surgically removed'' three papilloma on April 18, 1996. Afterward, O'Neill says, he developed an infection and received treatment through the following month. 'On each and every visit, the defendants assured [O'Neill] that there was nothing wrong with his penis and that he was `obsessing over nothing,' '' says the complaint, filed by attorney David H. Gold.
Gold says O'Neill suffered constant penile pain, plus curvature and an atrophic-like condition that caused a decrease in size. O'Neill has undergone treatments for the past 10 years, including anesthesia injections into the penis and spinal epidural space.
''He has to use Lidocaine every day on his penis,'' Gold says. He must also take the painkiller Percocet before and after sex.
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