Man Circumcised In Hospital Mix-up Gets £20,000 Payout

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I like how pragmatic Terry has been about this. Obviously he'd prefer to have still got his foreskin but, as he said, it could have been so much worse. They could have removed a testicle or something more functional. I think that I'd share his pragmatism - I'd be fairly furious if it had happened to me but I think that I'd probably laugh it off. The hospital didn't try to shirk responsibility and he got a decent amount of compensation. Lessons have been learned, procedures tightened (unlike his foreskin). Despite accepting that human beings very occasionally make mistakes, the concern in this case is that the checks and balances didn't work and this must have been a mistake by more than one individual. Someone should have noticed somewhere that the paperwork didn't include the word 'circumcision' and called a halt to preparations.