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  • Docs remove wrong testicle

    03/21/2010 4:01:10 AM PDT · by billorites · 45 replies · 1,152+ views
    The Sun ^ | March 19, 2010 | Neil Millard
    A PATIENT was left infertile after doctors operating on his testicle removed the wrong one. The bungling medics' mistake has prompted an urgent overhaul of procedures at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. Details of the error surfaced this week after the hospital was forced to confess all thanks to freedom of information laws. Care at the hospital had previously been rated "good" by the Care Quality Commission. The botched op took place last year. The unnamed patient should have had his right epididymis — a narrow tube connected to the testes — removed but the surgeons took away...