Posted on 04/21/2010 6:41:36 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Surgeon 'cut off patient's testicle by mistake'
A patient lost a testicle during an operation after the surgeon accidentally cut it off, the medical watchdog was told today.
Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only supposed to cut out a cyst on the patient's right testis, but instead he 'mistakenly' removed the whole testicle, the General Medical Council (GMC) heard.
Dr Al Hourani, who worked as a locum surgeon at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, is accused of misconduct over the error and faces further charges of injecting himself with a drug meant for a patient and stealing tablets.
The medic, who is now practising in Jordan, is not present or represented by lawyers at the Fitness to Practise Panel which is hearing his case at the GMC in Manchester. The panel decided to proceed with the case in his absence as he had been notified of the hearing but chose not to 'engage' with the GMC or appoint lawyers to represent him. Sarah Prichard, counsel for the GMC opening the hearing, said a man, known only as patient A, had gone into hospital for the cyst to be removed on September 5 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'.
Ms Prichard added: 'The theatre staff will tell the panel that their impression of what happened was that Dr Al Hourani had mistakenly removed the testicle rather than the cyst and expressed him(self) rather quite surprised the testicle rather than that which the patient had consented for was removed.
'Staff had no discussion or issue raised by Dr Al Hourani in the procedure as to why he was changing from excision of a cyst to removal of a testicle.'
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Maybe sharia law would dicate a deserving punishment for this surgeon akin to "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Unless of course the victim is a dhimmi infidel...
Doesn’t this story just make you nuts?
CommieCare in THIS country is going to cost us a heck of a lot more than a testicle.
Sorry but IBTL
That’s hitting below the belt.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I was wondering that too.
I doubt he’d do this to a Muslim.
How in the world can he mistake THAT for a CYST?
I'll tell you, this whole socialized medicine is certainly testing my patients.
There used to be a pro-wrasler named “Abdulla the Butcher” back in the 70’s. I think I know where he is and what he is doing now.
Maybe half nuts.
That surgeon had a ball.
I hate to play devil’s advocate here, but this happens a lot more often than what people might think. And it’s not just muzzie scalpel jocks that do it either.
Ms Prichard added: ‘The theatre staff will tell the panel that their impression of what happened was that Dr Al Hourani had mistakenly removed the testicle rather than the cyst and expressed him(self) rather quite surprised the testicle rather than that which the patient had consented for was removed.
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Ms Prichard said the mistake was made as one nurse helping the surgeon turned her back to get a stitch and when she turned around the testicle had been removed.
‘Literally as the nurse turned away to get a transfixion stitch the incident occurred and the testicle removed.
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The panel was told of another incident involving Dr Al Hourani more than a year earlier, on Sunday August 27 2006.
He had consulted a colleague and was advised to inject a patient with 10 milligrams (mg) of midazolam, a powerful sedative drug.
Instead Dr Al Hourani, who was the only surgeon at the hospital that day to treat patients, gave the patient 8mg and injected himself with the other 2mg.
Hospital staff said the doctor appeared unsteady on his feet, bumped into boxes, held on to a wall and was ‘weaving’ down the corridor.
He was later found in the doctors’ mess room, ‘deeply asleep’ and taken in a wheelchair to A&E.
An internal inquiry at the hospital was launched and during disciplinary hearings he confessed to self-injecting the drug, telling colleagues it was the ‘worst thing he had done in his life’ and he was ashamed of himself.
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Guess they don't do criminal or malpractice background checks on doctors over there.
Unfortunately, it was someone else's.
Pardon my racism but I wouldn’t take and asprin from an islamo doctor much less let him perform surgery on me.
Anybody up for a game of marbles???
Yes, but it was free.
“Bollocks!” Said the Queen, “If I had to (two), I’d be King!”
The King laughed, not because he had to, but because he had two.
I’m surprised that British men even have balls. Maybe it was a woman.
Removing any part of the body takes a long time as each blood vessel needs to be isolated and clamped and you remove the tissue very slowly. So the nurse is obviously lying.
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