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Date Posted: 14:53:48 08/29/02 Thu
Author: Homeskillet
Subject: I love this doctor's name

Man arraigned in case of castration gone wrong

August 24, 2002

BY MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A Taiwanese national living in Oak Park was arraigned Friday on charges related to a voluntary castration he performed on a Birmingham man.

Shuo-Shan Wang, 29, was arraigned in Oak Park District Court on one count of practicing medicine without a license and one count of unlawfully dispensing a prescription drug. The medical-license charge is a felony, which carries up to four years in prison upon conviction. The drug charge is a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail.

Oakland County prosecutors said the 48-year-old Birmingham man, whose identity hasn't been released by police, contacted the would-be surgeon through the Internet. Wang told police he had performed castrations on other men in Michigan and in his former home in Australia.

Both men said they were eating after the procedure, which had been performed on Wang's kitchen table, when the castrated man began to bleed after laughing. The bleeding couldn't be stopped.

Prosecutors said a neighbor notified authorities, who found the man sitting in blood-soaked jeans on a curb on Northfield Street. Police later found two testicles in a container in Wang's refrigerator.

Psychiatry experts say such incidents are rare, but some men want to be castrated for erotic reasons. There are Web sites devoted to the subject. Experts say other reasons include gender-identity disorders and compulsive feelings that genitals are dirty.

Oakland County Deputy Prosecutor Jim Halushka said the Birmingham man might have bled to death had the neighbor not called police. The man later underwent emergency surgery at Providence Hospital in Southfield.

"The whole purpose of the statute of practicing medicine without a license is really illustrated in this case," Halushka said.

Wang "doesn't have a license. He's not equipped to handle a problem when it arises," he said.

Halushka said Wang has overstayed a student visa by more than a year, and immigration authorities have been notified.

Wang couldn't be reached immediately for comment.

A pretrial conference was scheduled for Sept. 3.

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[> "Wang, this is a restricted club - don't tell them your Jewish." -- NO JUSTCE! NO PEACE!, 16:31:14 08/29/02 Thu

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[> [> Also, you know there has to be a guy unfortunately named "Wang Chung" somewhere in the world. I bet he got his ass kicked daily. -- NJ! NP!, 16:36:19 08/29/02 Thu

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