While I was living and working in Tampa, a friend asked me if I would look at a guy who he worked with who had pain in his groin. Ultimately I examined him and found a fairly large hernia and with is permission…and his family permission, I took him to surgery. Getting permission from the mother was odd as she obviously mistrusted or disliked me. Her daughters said, not to worry, she’s always that way. It was a fairly routine hernia procedure and one where the canal was open and I had to remove a sac while closing the hernia. In doing this, one delivers the testicle from the scrotum. I won’t go into detail describing a normal testical but they all look pretty much the same. This one had a tiny about 1 mm. spot on it…looked like a tiny clear cyst an was not elevated or palpable directly. I was curious enough to remove it and send it to pathology, as I had never seen anything like that. The path report came with a phone call…malignant! From that point on, I did everything the pathologist told me to do. He was scared. I was scared for him. His mother was suspicious and strange to me. I explained everything I was told and total castration was done. He recovered from that fine and was discharged. I never saw him again, but was told he was taken directly to another hospital for more surgery right after this discharge. Eventually I was sued by his mother for malpractice but was exonerated. He died within 6 months. I can’t blame her for being egregious as if he were my son, I may have done the same thing. I felt bad for the entire experience and to this day, I regret the experience. Sometimes you just can’t win. He was only 17.
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