A patient lost his testicle because a surgeon cut it off by mistake during a surgery, as was heard at the General Medical Council recently.
The patient was in surgery to remove a cyst from his testicle. Instead, surgeon Dr Sulieman Al Hourani removed the entire right testicle.
Dr Al Hourani was a locum surgeon at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, at the time of the surgery in September 2007.
Sarah Prichard, counsel for the GMC, said the mistake was made as a nurse helping the surgeon turned her back to get a stitch.
When she turned around the testicle had been removed.
Ms Prichard said: “Literally as the nurse turned away to get a transfixion stitch, the incident occurred and the testicle was removed.
“Such was the level of concern they immediately realized it could be a serious medical incident and took steps to complete the relevant documentation.”
An investigation was launched at once and the doctor was dismissed by his employer, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital.
The case, expected to last three weeks, has been adjourned until next Tuesday.

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