Massachusetts sues Florida doctor over unlicensed penis injections at Framingham clinic
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A real shot to the libido via a shot in the penis?
The Massachusetts Attorney General's office has sued a Florida concern that set up a Rte. 9 clinic to treat erectile dysfunction through penis injections - done by people with no medical or nursing certification - but sometimes by selling patients the generic versions of drugs whose brand names its workers disparaged.
In its lawsuit, filed last month in Suffolk Superior Court, the AG's office wants a judge to permanently bar Dr. Kevin Hornsby and his Florida Men's Medical clinic from ever again setting up shop in Massachusetts, at least to treat erectile dysfunction. Because Hornsby lives in Florida, his lawyers this week had the suit transferred to US District Court in Boston.
The lawsuit says the now closed Mass. Men's Clinic at 463 Worcester Rd. advertised the "newest available safe and effective medications" custom blended based on patients' unique biochemistry, with "virtually" no pain and with a near-100% efficacy rate, compared to the barely 30% effectiveness rate of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. The clinic's ads, however, did not mention the injection part - that was left until the last moment of a patient's initial consultation.
In fact, the state charges, the drugs the clinic preferred - due to their high profit margins - were older than the brand-name drugs, were not custom blended because the clinic never did anything to test patients' biochemistry, and potential side effects included both pain and those four-hour erections, because the drugs were injected into patients' penises. And because the injections were not mentioned in clinic ads, that's deceptive advertising, the state avers.
Hornsby himself, the state says, was not licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts.
The state adds:
All or almost all penile injections at MMM were given by FMMC employees who were not physicians, physicians' assistants or nurses (the "Injectors").
At least at certain times, the Injectors selected the formula of medications to inject into consumers' penises.
FMMC directed the Injectors that after giving injections of the blended medications "No matter the firmness of the reaction, sound optimistic and happy for the patient."
And when the clinic did offer patients "sublingual" drugs instead of penile injections, it told patients that letting the pills dissolve under the tongue was far more effective than swallowing a Viagra or Cialis pill.
In at least one instance, FMMC prescribed tadalafil to a consumer who had reported having poor results with Cialis - whose active ingredient is tadalafil.
The state says some men decided not to get the injections:
One Massachusetts consumer wrote to Kevin Hornsby saying
The Doctor who interviewed me 'was very professional but left the 'kicker' until the end. "Stick a sharp object into my junk?" That's a 'Non Starter' in any interview. I find the proposal to be mislleading and dishonest. Ifyour medicine is such a wonder, why not an oral application?
Men who called the clinic's number were answered in a call center, where workers had tightly-scripted pitches:
The Pitch Scripts directed the FMMC employees to state to consumers, "Normally, we're way overbooked, but I might be able to squeeze you in the next few days."
The clinic injectors also had scripts with which to try to comfort patients, the suit alleges:
Within the Hornsby ED Script, Kevin Hornsby wrote,
-when you push a button a SMALL HAIRLINE INJECTOR WILL DROP DOWN AND SLIP UNDER THE SKIN-IT WONT HURT ... WILL FEEL LIKE A THUMP BECAUSE ITS ABOVE THE NERVES IN THE PENIS (Theres [sic] your twenty critical words-ifyou say shot/gun/needle.....we are dead in the water and the patient will RUN out fast-i wouldn't blame him).
Also:
Through May 2014, FMMC required its employees, including at MMM, who sold quantities ofmedication to consumers, but had no medical licensure, to wear white lab coats.
As medical scrubs and white coats are generally worn in medical settings by medical personnel, these practices falsely suggested to consumers that these unlicensed personnel were licensed medical professionals.
The lawsuit continues that the state Department of Public Health warned Hornsby in 2012 that the clinic was violating state law because it didn't have a license.
Last December, a Florida attorney filed a class-action suit against Hornsby, the month after Minnesota suspended the doctor heading up his clinic there.
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Comments
PURE
"HOG WASH."
BACK IN MY DAY YOU HAD SNAKE OIL SALESMEN, NOT SNAKE INJECTOR SALESMEN.
Of course they we from a
Of course they we from a state that resembles a flaccid penis.
Lucky to only get sued
If this were a criminal case, Hornsby could end up receiving a whole lot of "penis injections."
stuff it and plump it
Inject it and infect it..
Good lord, where to start?
Us man monkeys worry way too much about our trouser trout and whether it's ready to rise. Virility vanity diminishes us and makes us pathetic.
I'll be 60 in a few months and the whole arousal thing is going away and I couldn't be more psyched.
I was always incompetent and inept at convincing women to 'embrace' me, probably because I'm another old undiagnosed Asperger case. And it's a culture with a lot of mean and obnoxious women and ridiculous men, if you want to work that side of the fence.
So now I don't have to make excuses for myself or them. I don't have to put up with the absurd vanity called fashion. If someone knows how to be a good companion, fine, but I'm not wasting another second chasing that chimera. I have a good, sturdy bunch of friends.
Basically, the encroaching impotence that greets you later in life is a total blessing, you are off the hook. It's one more stressful thing you don't have to care about and you are freed up to find eagles in Waltham or immerse yourself in the inherent divinity of a living world that rises to greet you at every turn.
Speak for yourself!!!
Speak for yourself!!!
I just did.
I'm not about to speak for some faceless entity in a comment section or anyone else.
I'm suggesting an alternative way of looking at aging instead of going to your grave with a lampshade on your head as you try to be the life of an imaginary party.
Heard the ads on WBZ all the time
I was just amused that a penis doctor was named "Hornsby". Not shocked that it was bull.
Spent heavily on advertising
In the complaint: "37. For example, in September 2014, FMMC needed patients at MMM to pay over $987 each to cover the costs of advertising alone (not covering other overhead such as lease payments and salaries)."
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I had a terrible experience with the Men's Clinic in the Villages Florida . First of all they are not located in the Villages. They lied in their ads. I trusted the "doctor" who I found out later had lost his license in another state because he injected a person in the penis with an unknown substance in a hospital and killed him. My injection which was given without any medical testing or contacting my primary care physicians. The doctor said he was going to show me know it was done and that there was no needle in the tube just a dry run. I said okay and he injected me with something! It HURT! I said I didn't want it. They said too bad. They are shipping it anyway because I had signed a contract. What contract? Isn't it between two parties? When it arrived I returned the package immediately unopened and put in a complaint with my credit card Bank of America. They said I had to pay it. I told them they charged me over $5000.00 for refused items . They said they didn't care the Men's Clinic had a contract! If we had a contract I am entitled to expect what they said they would deliver. They didn't. If it was a mashed pizza I could return it but not dangerous drugs? How is the contract different? The results they advertised and promised were not delivered. The contract was based on their guarantee. Since when are contracts one way? They did not deliver the results guaranteed in their office as advertised and hurt me so I refused the delivery. Now I still have to pay. This is a nice way to make a living! Especially when credit cards take a one sided view when you object. These people are a scam and kept in business by credit card companies compliance. They are dangerous.