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The Guardian

A man has been awarded £20,000 (US$24,000) in compensation after he went into hospital for a bladder procedure and was mistakenly circumcised.
Terry Brazier, 70, was given the procedure after staff at Leicester Royal Infirmary mixed up his notes.
“I went in the surgery for some Botox and they ended up circumcising me,” he told the Daily Star.
“They didn’t know what to say when they found out they’d done it, they said they can’t send me back to the ward and they needed to talk to me.”

He described it as “a real surprise”.
Brazier went into hospital for a cystoscopy, a procedure that involves looking inside the bladder using a thin camera before Botox is injected into the bladder wall. The Botox injections have the effect of partially paralysing the bladder, reducing urinary incontinence.
Brazier told the Star he was so distracted chatting with nurses that he did not realise he was getting a different procedure until it was too late.
Andrew Furlong, the medical director at University hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, said: “We remain deeply and genuinely sorry that this mistake occurred, and I would like to take this opportunity to once again apologise to Mr Brazier.
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“We take events like this very seriously and carried out a thorough investigation at the time to ensure that we learned from this incident and do all we can to avoid it happening again.
“Whilst money can never undo what happened, we hope this payment provides some compensation,” he said.


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Circumcised by mistake, British man Terry Brazier gets US$24,000 payout from hospital

Some surgical instruments on a table. Photo: Shutterstock

The mix-up happened at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 3.0

Philippines’ circumcision season begins. Is it a rite of passage for boys or child abuse?

A boy reacts while being circumcised during a mass circumcision at a village health centre in Manila. Photo: AFP

This photo take on May 10, 2019, shows boys waiting for their turn to be circumcised during a mass circumcision at a village health centre in Manila. - A row of Philippine boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of "circumcision season", when thousands like them suffer through the procedure en masse. The snipping of foreskins is a centuries-old rite of passage to adulthood in the Philippines, which gives the nation one of the highest rates of circumcision in the world. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY PHILIPPINES-CULTURE-TRADITION-CIRCUMCISION,FOCUS BY RON LOPEZ

This photo take on May 10, 2019, shows boys taking part in a mass circumcision at a village health centre in Manila. - A row of Philippine boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of "circumcision season", when thousands like them suffer through the procedure en masse. The snipping of foreskins is a centuries-old rite of passage to adulthood in the Philippines, which gives the nation one of the highest rates of circumcision in the world. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY PHILIPPINES-CULTURE-TRADITION-CIRCUMCISION,FOCUS BY RON LOPEZ

In this photo taken on May 8, 2019, a boy shows his queue number as he and others wait for their turn during a mass circumcision at a village health centre in Manila. - A row of Philippine boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of "circumcision season", when thousands like them suffer through the procedure en masse. The snipping of foreskins is a centuries-old rite of passage to adulthood in the Philippines, which gives the nation one of the highest rates of circumcision in the world. (Photo by TED ALJIBE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY PHILIPPINES-CULTURE-TRADITION-CIRCUMCISION,FOCUS BY RON LOPEZ

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Patient, 70, was supposed to undergo bladder operation at Leicester Royal Infirmary, but staff mixed up his notes
Brazier said he was so distracted chatting with nurses that he did not realise he was getting a different procedure until it was too late



Terry Brazier, 70, was awarded US$24,000 in compensation after mix-up at British hospital


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