Wounded Soldier to Receive First U.S. Penis Transplant
“It’s an embarrassing topic nobody wants to talk about.“Thor Wold, who served as a Marine medic in the Iraq War says it’s the first thing injured soldiers would ask him about.[Wold:]
“They would ask: ‘Is everything okay down there doc? My wife’s at home and we’re trying to have a baby when I get back.’”
Now doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, are hoping to ensure that everything can be okay.
They’re preparing to perform the very first penis transplant in the U.S.
The recipient will be a U.S. soldier who lost the majority of his penis and suffered substantial groin injuries in a bomb explosion while deployed overseas.
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