From: usteen@asdf.fi   
      
   Let's usher the holiday season out with a double-jab dose of the   
   tinsel-free world:   
      
      
   A team of doctors at Russia's Ulyanovsk Hospital face prosecution for   
   botching the final stages of an operation to remove an ovarian cyst.   
   The doctors, led by senior physician Vladimir Demin, administered   
   formaldehyde instead of saline solution.  They then attempted to   
   rectify the blunder by introducing 10 litres of saline solution to the   
   patient's abdomen.  When her condition worsened, 28-year-old Yekaterina   
   Fedyaeva was taken to a hospital in Moscow for more advanced treatment.   
   She woke from her coma briefly but ultimately ended up in need of   
   further formaldehyde.   
      
     Vladimir Demin = I _am_ Dr Evil, mind.   
      
      
   Utah's Jason Dee Maughn is accused of ending an argument with a choice.   
   Maughn, 45, allegedly told the other man, who was handcuffed to a chair   
   at the time, to decide whether to be killed out in the desert or have a   
   nail punched through his penis.  The following day, Maughn's opponent   
   went to the hospital to be treated for genital injuries sustained via a   
   tool resembling an ice pick.  Maughn has been charged with sexual   
   assault and kidnapping in conjunction with domestic violence.   
      
     Ah, one man's judge:   
     Jason Dee Maughn   
      
      
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