A bungling urologist is under investigation for mistakenly amputating a patient’s penis after he wrongly diagnosed the man, believed to be in his 60s, with cancer.
The 30-year-old surgeon is accused of causing serious injury to the unnamed patient from the municipality of Arezzo, in Italy‘s Tuscany region.
He performed the operation at San Donato Hospital in Arezzo on November 13, 2018.
This was after incorrectly diagnosing the patient, who is believed to be in his late sixties, a month earlier.
Reports suggest that the penis removal operation went down without a hitch- until later analysis revealed there was no reason for it to have occurred in the first place.
The devastated patient is now seeking compensation from the bungling medic over the mutilation.
The case has a preliminary court hearing scheduled for March 9 in Arezzo.
