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Originally Posted by sicone
why is 61 yr old getting circumcised?
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Considering his age the most likely reason was balanitis. Chances are the man in question was overweight, had diabetes type 2, and waited too long before visiting a physician. By the time he finally did visit a physician it was too late to resolve the issue without surgery.
It was not a routine circumcision, since they'd probably have used local instead of full anesthesia for that and possible cancer would have gone unnoticed with a simple procedure like that.
So the patient's dick was almost certainly an inflamed, infected mess, the patient himself wasn't in great health, the surgeon was performing a non-standard circumcision and there probably was a suspicion that more might be wrong. When he did find something, it almost certainly wasn't something small that could have been removed by less drastic means.
Of course, the surgeon still should have informed the patient and gotten his consent before the amputation. Not for medical reasons (it's quite possible that he saved the patient's life), but to cover his own ass.