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Docs remove wrong testicle
The Sun ^ | March 19, 2010 | Neil Millard

Posted on 03/21/2010 4:01:10 AM PDT by billorites

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 his left one instead.

A second op was then needed to take away the right one, rendering him totally infertile.

The hospital has refused to say if it paid the victim of the appalling mistake compensation.

The hospital's embarrassed health chief Nigel Kee said: "A thorough investigation into this case was carried out by an independent consultant, who advised us to introduce an additional hospital-wide policy giving clearer instructions on marking and verifying sites prior to surgery.

"We implemented this recommendation immediately."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: beansandfrank; doctors; napl; nhs; obamacare; socializedmedicine
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"OK, your right, my left..."
1 posted on 03/21/2010 4:01:10 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Nuts.


2 posted on 03/21/2010 4:04:00 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: billorites

Having undergone this procedure, I can feel for the
guy. Hope he gets a bundle.


3 posted on 03/21/2010 4:05:34 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: billorites

please....no one type TTIWWP

please


4 posted on 03/21/2010 4:06:32 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: billorites

The OTHER right, ‘Doc’. OUCH!


5 posted on 03/21/2010 4:09:25 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: billorites

The good news, however, is that it wasn’t malignant.


6 posted on 03/21/2010 4:10:53 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows

Mangled genitals ping — or not.


7 posted on 03/21/2010 4:10:56 AM PDT by TheOldLady ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus)
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To: Daisyjane69
http://paisans.org/forums/images_black/smilies/ttiwwp.gif
8 posted on 03/21/2010 4:11:09 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I just knew you would be the one to do it.

heh


9 posted on 03/21/2010 4:13:53 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Daisyjane69

LOL


10 posted on 03/21/2010 4:14:50 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: billorites

They Eunuched him!!


11 posted on 03/21/2010 4:16:22 AM PDT by NotSoModerate
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To: billorites

I hate it when that happens. Of course it happened in one of those countries with a mature and well-oiled Obamacare-like health system.


12 posted on 03/21/2010 4:20:30 AM PDT by FlyingFish
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To: billorites

This kind of bumbling stupidity is why I have a longstanding policy of marking any areas where non-emergency surgery is to be performed with a black indelible marker indicating what IS and what IS NOT the correct areas for the doctor to work on.

There’s no way a doctor is going to approach my scrotum with intent to perform surgery without a well defined DO NOT TOUCH zone in place.


13 posted on 03/21/2010 4:21:15 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: RFEngineer
Himmler...
had something similar.
14 posted on 03/21/2010 4:21:22 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

"ttiwwp" Here you go!

15 posted on 03/21/2010 4:21:47 AM PDT by 1776 Reborn
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To: Daisyjane69

Somehow this thread leads me to today’s movie trivia question...”is it the frank or is it the beans?”


16 posted on 03/21/2010 4:24:00 AM PDT by FlyingFish
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
This kind of bumbling stupidity is why I have a longstanding policy of marking any areas where non-emergency surgery is to be performed with a black indelible marker indicating what IS and what IS NOT the correct areas for the doctor to work on

In 1991 Methodist Sports Medicine had me, mark my own leg for a ACL repair to avoid doing the wrong leg, it was like aassembly line that day.

I had to write NO! on one leg and yes on the other.

17 posted on 03/21/2010 4:27:48 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: billorites
Ah nuts! Which reminds me:

A guy in Tampa went in for surgery to amputate his left leg, but the doc removed the right leg. Upon learning of the error, the doc had to go in and amputate the left leg, as originally scheduled. Well, as most would know, the guy would obviously sue and did. However, the judge threw out the suit on the grounds the guy didn't have a leg to stand on!

18 posted on 03/21/2010 4:28:59 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: tet68

Damn metric system.........


19 posted on 03/21/2010 4:30:29 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: billorites

Ouch!

20 posted on 03/21/2010 4:31:30 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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