Doctors mistakenly chop off man’s testicle after a routine op to remove swelling went wrong 😱
He had been booked for a 30-minute op to remove swelling from his testicle but a blunder by a consultant urologist meant he had to go back under the knife a day later.Credit: Alamy
His testicle became infected and he was taken back into theatre, but 'not told' what surgery he was having.The 62-year-old unnamed man, of Barrow, Cumbria, said: "I looked down and saw I was missing a testicle.“I didn’t know what to say; I was just in shock. A consultant took me for an ultrasound and said ‘I’ve never seen such a bloody mess in my life’.
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