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A surgeon who cut off a patient's testicle by mistake has been struck off the medical register. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Surgeon struck off over op blunder Enlarge photo Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was supposed to take out a cyst on the patient's right testis but instead he removed the whole testicle.
The man, known only as patient A, had gone into Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, for the operation in September 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", a disciplinary hearing was told.
The blunder happened when a nurse helping the locum surgeon turned her back and Dr Al Hourani removed the testicle.
Dr Al Hourani was found guilty of misconduct by a General Medical Council (GMC) fitness to practise panel in his absence after he returned to his homeland of Jordan and refused to engage in the proceedings.
More than a year earlier in August 2006, he had injected two milligrams (mg) of midazolam, a powerful sedative drug, into himself which was intended for a patient. He was on call at the hospital and was the most senior surgeon on duty at the time.
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.
Dr Al Hourani was issued with a final warning over that incident but was eventually dismissed by his employers, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, in October 2007 over allegations he stole two boxes of dihydrocodeine tablets from a ward treatment room.
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