How much to lose your legs??

He has an amputation fetish, which ended up with him having his own healthy legs amputated. Dunno who did the amputations though.

This is going to be a gruesome case for jurors…

This guy has direct links with Gustavson and the eunuch crowd.One of the charges is about that. You may want to take it up with the WPATH - the most authoritative body with trans medicine why they included chapters on eunuch care in their guidance. The eunuch and null movements are definite subsets of the trans movement. Gustavson did what he did for sexual kinks and money. Take your BIID and stuff it.

I agree, I watched an interview and the main things he mentioned over an over again was the care and attention.

Sounds like he paid for videos so that is 'encouraging' the perpetrator with payment.

Nah little finger is the anchor to your grip strength. Try to make a fist leaving your little finger out and see how weak it is.
Lose your ring or middle finger instead.

He probably couldn’t fap himself silly whilst at work in the middle of performing surgery

As per the report the implication is that the injuries to his legs were “self inflicted”. So he started out with healthy legs.

Probably didn't get off removing gangrenous limbs from elderly patients not of his preferred gender? Some people into this really have specific desires, like seeing a healthy young man have his penis removed. Stuff like that.

I would probably accept a few million to maybe lose half of one leg. For the sake of my child's financial security in the future.

But anyway, for this guy it sounds like he didn't get rid of his legs for the money, he was into getting rid of them for his own reasons (maybe a fetish) regardless, and thought he might as well try and get a payout for it while he's at it. It's pretty wild that he managed to do so much damage to his healthy legs it convinced a surgeon to remove them due to 'sepsis'. I don't think this chap is very mentally well.

There's a whole community out there of people into this, having it done to them and watching it be done to others. One subsection is men that call themselves 'nullos', they have a fetish for having their genitals removed and there being nothing there. It doesn't appeal to me in any way I can say! But it's clearly not a one off abberration, it's a thing.

But I dont get why he needed to pay to see someone else amputate limbs when he literally did it himself for his job?

He needed his legs to be amputated, the case relates to fraud as he claimed the sepsis was caused by something else, as this would lead to a greater payout.

He did not have healthy legs amputated!

I’m quoting this as I’ve just read the article and it is fascinating. Long but worth your time to read it.

Crazy story. Sadly, it doesn't even shock me anymore. The lengths some people will go to for a cheap thrill.
Weirdo.
His poor patients have my sympathy.

His name probably came up when they started investigating The Eunuch Maker as he'd paid for videos and encouraged Marius Gustavson to amputate people's limbs. There will have an email and transaction trail.
Then police will have connected this with him having his own legs amputated and they will have investigated him further.

This is so weird. And such a brief article! So much detail missing!

£466,000 is less than 5 years salary for a consultant NHS surgeon. So whatever this man did it for it was not the money.

Bizarre. And horrific.
No amount of money.
Money is not more important than having a healthy body.

I’m sorry, but I really do have to ask… is that his real name? Or has he changed it to match with his interests somewhere down the line? Neil (kneel) …Hopper… really? Come on, that’s too much of a coincidence surely?

You are absolutely right: you can manage a lot more without legs than you can without hands. I say this with authority, having lost both! Your hands are so versatile that nothing can replace them. prosthetic legs (below knee) more or less can replace normal legs, with the restrictions of discomfort, needing to balance, and extra effort. Nothing replaces hands.

No amount of money. My 5 year old son heartbreakingly had his leg amputated a few years ago and I see his struggles and pain every single day.

No, I tried it and it didn’t work for me because of my varifocal glasses. I can type with my elbow or use one of the many voice typing accessibility options. For short messages my elbow results in fewer corrections!

I can't imagine any world where I'd agree to amputate my limbs unless it was life-saving.

Mine don't work very well but to all those idiots who think the benefits you get are worth having a disability, take it from me they're not.

Sounds odd.

The Atlantic article posted above talks about the whole spectrum from this kind of thing to trans angle (not a subset of that, just making connections, asking questions etc). It’s not about this case but pretty in-depth about the bigger picture. Thanks to the pp for posting it, interesting read.

The bland NHS statement sounds like a tick box. They've had no complaints obviously. Certainly doesn't mean there was no malpractice.