{"id":1361,"date":"2018-12-24T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:49:46","slug":"wrong-site-surgery-castrates-young-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wrong-site-surgery-castrates-young-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Site Surgery \u2018Castrates\u2019 Young Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious incident investigation has been launched into how what should have been a simple operation turned into a shocking \u2018never event\u2019 for a child at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has reported the distressing case of a young boy who attended hospital for a minor procedure to deal with an undescended testicle only for his surgeon to accidentally operate on the descended and healthy testicle, effectively rendering it unable to function.<\/p>\n<p>The re-positioning of an undescended testicle is usually a short and successful procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Operating on the incorrect location such as the wrong kidney, the wrong testicle or the wrong eye, is considered to be a \u2018never event\u2019. This is an occurrence that should never happen during surgical procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to a solicitor<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one are suffering the long-term impact of a significant medical failing, such as surgery to the wrong location, contact us to discuss your situation with a specialist medical negligence solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious incident investigation has been launched into how what should have been a simple operation turned into a shocking \u2018never event\u2019 for a child at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. The BBC has reported the distressing case of a young boy who attended hospital for a minor procedure to deal with an undescended testicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[585,55],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-events","tag-never-event","tag-wrong-site-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}