Doctors.... Why haven't I seen one for years?

[sandyRoe]

A surgeon who cut off a patient's testicle by mistake has been struck off the medical register.
Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was supposed to take out a cyst on the patient's right testis but instead he removed the whole testicle.

The man, known only as patient A, had gone into Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, for the operation in September 2007.

He was the first patient of the day and his medical notes made it "perfectly clear" the procedure was to be "excision of right epididymal cyst", a disciplinary hearing was told.

The blunder happened when a nurse helping the locum surgeon turned her back and Dr Al Hourani removed the testicle.

Dr Al Hourani was found guilty of misconduct by a General Medical Council (GMC) fitness to practise panel in his absence after he returned to his homeland of Jordan and refused to engage in the proceedings.

[karenmac60]

He was only in to get his tonsils out too....

[ttfn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEbot2Gj8g

[ummmm]

I read that story....

I suppose you have to look at all the successful operations to put the mistakes in proportion.

[sandyRoe]

True,Ummmm. But you wouldn't want to be the victim of two mistakes like that.

[ummmm]

lol....no.

Not as bad but recently a toddler was taken to hospital after a fall. Xray showed a broken arm....they put a cast on the wrong arm....poor little mite was walking round with a broken arm and a good arm in a cast.

[Mr Veritas]

Which reminds me of the surgeon(Circa 1820),who was reputed to be the fastest amputator of limbs in the UK.
His record was very fast,sadly in the(record breaking) process of amputating a leg,he cut off one of the patients testicles,and one of his own fingers too!
I was glad I was in the 21st Century,until I read the above!

[society]

True, mistakes do happen. But, making errors with ones life is unacceptable. All people in the medical profession with a practising license should have their licenses revoked without a hearing, should they make mistakes with peoples' lives.

[Mr Veritas]

PS:~
I should have said,they HAD to be fast due to the lack of General anaesthetic!

[stewey]

To err is human: an axiom. Doctors are human: therefore, they make mistakes. It's the same with parents, mechanics, builders, lawers, and even prostitutes....These things happen and that's it. Quite often, in the scheme of things, circumstances blend together and really run amok.

[wolf63]

It isn't really a big deal - he has another one.

Susan :-)

[Sqad]

In 2005 National Patient Safety Agency issued alert that there were no methods of identifying which side of the brain to operate on.
Since the alert NPSA had another 15reports of surgery on the wrong side.

2007 ....56 incidents of wrong site operations reported to NPSA. Including brain operations.

50,000 residents of UK travel abroad for surgery.

NHS pays out £2million a day for malpractice.

This is totally unacceptable.

[Bbbananas]

That's an awful story sandy. When he said he was going home to Bury after the op, he obviously didn't mean go home to buy his severed testicle.

Joking apart (was that a joke?), it really is appalling; all these blunders.

[Bbbananas]

that should say bury not buy, so it wasn't even a comprehensible joke - sorry - it's early :-(