Personal Injury Law

Lawsuit: Doctor Removed Testicle for No Reason

By Edward Bills

A trial has begun in Arizona over a lawsuit filed by a man who claims a doctor at University Medical Center removed his right testicle unnecessarily in 2007. Kenneth Irby had gone to Dr. Jonathan Walker to have a biopsy performed on a mass found on his right testicle that Walker feared might be cancerous. Before going into surgery, Irby said he and the doctor agreed that if the mass was indeed cancerous, Walker would remove the testicle, the lawsuit states. During a routine check-up a week later, however, Irby was told that the mass was not cancerous, but the testicle was removed anyway. Irby told jurors this week that since the operation he “feels like (he’s) lost (his) sexuality.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).