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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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If you really knew how often this occurred and was kept quiet, you would never trust a surgeon again. God complex or not.


21 posted on 03/21/2010 4:32:20 AM PDT by Shaun_MD
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To: billorites

A perfect picture of what is taking place in Washington today.


22 posted on 03/21/2010 4:35:27 AM PDT by 1curiousmind
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To: billorites

This is what happens when you have surgery done on your genitals in a brewery town.


23 posted on 03/21/2010 4:49:52 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: billorites

Population control, one more human who cannot reproduce. Nationalized healthcare at it’s best


24 posted on 03/21/2010 4:51:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (cockblock the sock puppet in 2010)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
Two weeks ago I had a breast mass removed. From the time I walked into the hospital until the actual surgery I had to answer the same questions over and over including my birth date, what I was having done and which side. When the surgeon came in she had to sign my right shoulder with a black marker before I was rolled into the op room.

These mistakes are easily avoided.

25 posted on 03/21/2010 4:56:15 AM PDT by NEPA (Give me liberty, not debt)
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To: NEPA
Two weeks ago I had a breast mass removed. From the time I walked into the hospital until the actual surgery I had to answer the same questions over and over including my birth date, what I was having done and which side. When the surgeon came in she had to sign my right shoulder with a black marker before I was rolled into the op room.

These mistakes are easily avoided.

And those same precautions will be quickly eliminated as a cost saving measure.

26 posted on 03/21/2010 5:09:08 AM PDT by reg45
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To: NEPA

When the surgeon came in she had to sign my right shoulder with a black marker before I was rolled into the op room

Doc, now do I operate on the shoulder with the black mark or is it the one without the mark,anyone got a coin?


27 posted on 03/21/2010 5:10:45 AM PDT by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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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.

UK cost cutting.

28 posted on 03/21/2010 5:13:58 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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29 posted on 03/21/2010 6:43:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: billorites

Hey! At least they did the right patient....didn’t they?....didn’t they?......oh no..check that that name tag!!!!


30 posted on 03/21/2010 7:49:23 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Squantos

LOL. I forget, what is metric for left or right?


31 posted on 03/21/2010 7:56:56 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
T'was the Night of the King's Castration: the last of the Royal Balls was coming off...
32 posted on 03/21/2010 7:57:08 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: NEPA

I hope you are feeling better and wish you a speedy recovery.


33 posted on 03/21/2010 8:46:19 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Thanks, I’m doing fine.


34 posted on 03/21/2010 8:54:49 AM PDT by NEPA (Give me liberty, not debt)
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To: TheOldLady; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Apparently the Senate Republicans use the NHS.


35 posted on 03/21/2010 11:19:37 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Cocoa Judas!)
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To: FlyingFish

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


Exactly why there will be “Tort Reform” if 0bamacare passes.


36 posted on 03/21/2010 11:28:28 AM PDT by unkus
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

When I went in for carpal tunnel surgery, they used a marker to mark what hand was to be done and had me verify that that was what I understood and was expecting to have operated on.

If it helps prevent mistakes, they can write on me all they want.


37 posted on 03/21/2010 11:30:28 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: billorites

At least he won’t be caught like Edwards was!


38 posted on 03/21/2010 11:32:40 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: o2bfree
I hope the doctors remove this.


39 posted on 03/21/2010 11:33:45 AM PDT by o2bfree (This president is giving me a headache!)
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To: humblegunner

Ping for your expertise!


40 posted on 03/21/2010 11:44:07 AM PDT by Eaker (Where I'm from, "Gang Colors" is Realtree and Mossy Oak. You know what I'm saying hoss. Rule.308.)
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