The patient had been scheduled to have a cystoscopy – a bladder inspection with a camera.
But instead surgeons removed his foreskin after his notes were mixed with a patient due to have a circumcision last September.
The error was one of eight “never events” at University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trusts last year – with the report stating the trusts had failed to learn from them.
Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LCCCG) also revealed in the report a swab was left inside a child after nasal surgery.
In April another patient also had surgery intended for another man with a similar name, and one person had a hip implant in the wrong side.
The report stated: “Failure to demonstrate learning from never events has been a concern for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland commissioners and partners for some time.
ht/ fdr in hell
What pricks!
You get what you pay for….
We have socialized medical care in areas of the US, such as Louisiana. I have practiced in both private care as well as the socialized area. I can assure you there is a major difference and have consistently seen worse than the stated cases here.
When going into the hospital, especially one with surgeons on duty there, always use a permanent marker to write “Do Not Remove” on anything you don’t want cut off (be careful to write it out in full and not just use the initials “DNR”).
If you don’t, you may wake up to find it missing.
I don’t care where you are, doctors and hospitals can kill you quicker than shiite!
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Ummm, if you write “DNR” , you may not wake up at all.
^^^^ or you may not wake up at all.
Did he also get the operation he really needed or did he have to get back in line?
Maybe the Doctor was Cockeyed….
At the Hearing the Doctor supposedly said..
“It’s no skin off My Dick”
Something similar happened to a friend of mine. His penis was cut off in an accident, and all his male relatives donated an inch of theirs to reconstruct it. When the doctor asked him what he thought of his new penis, he said “It’s great that it is longer than it used to be, but why did you put Grandpas part in the middle?”
That’s a new look! Goodbye anteater, hello helmet head! His girlfriend is gonna love that lol . . . maybe not
/’orrible
He should not have told the surgeon to keep the tip.
He’s probably grateful not to have been transgenderized under socialized medicine.
London Medical Center
2019 Fleet Street.
Dear Mr. Giles.
We are pleased to inform you that the red blotches on your
penis were not cancerous. They were lipstick.
We regret removing it.
Sincerely, Dr. C. Achmed, Chief Surgeon LMC
Just a side note, if a urologist wants to perform a cystoscopy, run, don’t walk to the nearest exit.
Best estimate for accidental lethal hospital mistakes here in the US annually is 2~4 hundred thousand.
What do want for free? Just take a pill or a breathalyzer and go home or something.
You know we need to keep the costs down. – Dr. Jugeard Barky
He’s now what the Democrats said about Nixon…
“There’s no end to that prick.”