According to the Telegraph, the man had a kind of syphilis that might have been treated with medicine. The patient is now suing the doctor for compensation.
Digital Desk: After misdiagnosing a man with a tumour, a surgeon removed his penis. Italy's top health officials are now looking into the urologist.
The 30-year-old doctor is suspected of causing serious damage to an unnamed patient in Arezzo, Italy's Tuscany area.
After the mistaken diagnosis, the surgery was performed on November 13, 2018, at San Donato Hospital in Arezzo.
According to the Daily Mail, the unidentified patient is in his late sixties.
The operation went well, however during the examination of the severed genital portion, it was discovered that there was no tumour.
According to the Telegraph, the man had a kind of syphilis that might have been treated with medicine.
The patient is now suing the doctor for compensation.
A preliminary court hearing in Arezzo, Tuscany, is scheduled for March 9.
A similar occurrence was reported in France last year, when a man's penis was "completely amputated" at Nantes University Hospital due to a sequence of blunders.
"I hate this doctor because he didn't listen to me," the man told France Bleu.
"I'm terribly devastated, and it's just shameful," he remarked. He stated that following the surgery "I knew it deep down. It was either that or death. And he had certainly removed everything. He had only cut at the base of the testicles after leaving the testicles."
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