Investigation was done by one of the other under-fire urologists
After Walney dad Bill Murray complained when he lost a testicle following a routine procedure carried out by Ashutosh Jain (above) the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust carried out a Root Cause Analysis.
An RCA aims to identify any failings and lessons to be learned.
The trust redacted (blacked out) the names of the urologists and other clinicians/trust staff involved in the RCA but I managed to obtain the names.
Incredibly, I discovered that the lead author of the report was Muhammad Naseem (below) - one of the other urologists responsible for clinical errors within the urology department over the last 18 years.
Understandably, Bill wasn't happy, and so I contacted five consultant urologists from across the UK.
I sent them a copy of the RCA and images taken during the second operation to remove Bill's testicle.
Remarkably all five immediately flagged up one particular claim within the report.
The report claimed: "Scrotal surgery can be associated with significant complications including the risk of scrotal haematoma which very rarely can endanger blood supply to the testis. This is rare and recognised complication."
All five urologists, who between them have more than 100 years' experience, independently said this is NOT TRUE.
They all said damaging the blood supply to the testis is NOT a recognised complication of a scrotal haematoma.
Furthermore, two of the consultants disagreed that a scrotal haematoma had caused the damage to the testis - they said if the testicle loss had been caused by a haematoma then 'everything would have been black and dead'.
The consultants agreed that ‘testicular loss is not a risk of hydrocele repair’ and that the only cause of a gangrene testicle - without damaging the rest of the scrotum, could be if ‘the testicle was twisted by the surgeon during the procedure’.
The GMC is now understood to be investigating the incident.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Urology experts from across UK dispute FGH consultant's claims
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