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."
Not too many left uh... ones... among them, that’s for sure.
It’s NHS. You “get” to have the proper procedure performed after the error. Maybe a token payment for some time missed.
But no “bundle”. You’ll take what you’re given and you’ll like it. And if your story doesn’t end up in the newspapers, you’ll get nothing.
With doctor shortages, the people who did it won’t really be punished either.
That’s the way it works in socialized medicine.
I’m reminded of a guy I met at the VA, he had gone in
for some treatment of his diabetes but they screwed up
and ended up taking both his legs. He wasn’t too bummed
about it though.
“Look, they gave me this really nice scooter chair!”
So now Michelle Obama only has three?
I'm going to! You asked for it and you'll get it!
Your only chance is if you explain what that six-lettered acronym means. And BTW, I82.
So that’s the left one, right? But if it is the left one, which one is left, the right one?
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