From nasty nose jobs to botched breast implants, we look at 9 nightmare surgeries that went
horribly wrong.
9.
No leg to stand on • In 1995 Willie King was in hospital to
have one of his legs amputated.
• Unfortunately, the surgeon removed the wrong one.
When the surgeon realized his mistake, it was too late for Willie’s good leg and the
continued to remove the one they were meant to.
When the surgeon was asked to explain his actions he argued that that it all came down
to the paperwork.
• Some of Willie’s paperwork said the right leg was to be amputated, so the nurse
had prepped the right leg for surgery.
And because surgeons just slice and dice, Willie King ended up with no legs and $100,000
dollars in remuneration. 8.
Nobody Nose • Vishal Thakkar was so self-conscious about
his slightly lopsided nostrils that he figured he would finally do something about it.
• He went to see Dr. Angelo for a quickie rhinoplasty.
This resulted in breathing problems, so he went in for follow-up surgeries.
With every operation the problem got worse and they ran out of tissue to re-sculpt Vishal’s
nose.
• All the surgery resulted in such a nasty infection that the hack doctor amputates the
offending schnoz!
So then Dr. Frankenstein cobbles together a makeshift nose out of ear cartilage and
rib cage to create a monstrosity.
Dr. Angelo makes Michael Jackson’s surgeon look like a master sculptor.
7.
Don’t go breakin’ my heart • A 67 year old named Joan was brought into
hospital for a cerebral angiogram.
• It’s a pretty low-key procedure where they inject a dye into the blood vessels of
your brain and take a bunch of x-rays.
Unfortunately Joan was taken back to the wrong room after her procedure, so before she’d
even woken up she was being whisked into an operating room.
• The surgeon performed open heart surgery on Joan.
An hour in, her doctor called the O.R to find out what the flip they were doing with his
patient.
That was when they realized their mistake.
Lucky for Joan, she got her unnecessary bypass on the house.
She’s the perfect example of how one mistake leads to a domino effect of colossal fuck
ups.
6.
Penis-less • Hurshell Ralls went in for surgery to
have a cancerous lump removed from his bladder.
• But when he woke up, he was shocked to learn he was missing quite a bit more than
that.
To prevent the spread of the cancer, the surgeon decided to remove both of Hurshell’s testicles
and his penis.
Unfortunately nobody thought to mention this to the patient or his wife before he went
in for the surgery.
• Also, nobody bothered to check if his genitals had any cancer in them before savagely
cutting them off.
By the time they did, it was too late.
Turns out, Hurshell’s genitals were cancer free so he was made a eunuch for no damn reason.
5.
Party Pooper • Joseph Swain went into hospital for a
humdrum surgery to reattach his colon.
• Unfortunately in the hubbub of the surgery, instead of reattaching it to the bowel, the
surgeon attached it to his bladder.
Shortly after the surgery Joseph began pooping and farting out of his urethra.
His poor penis was being inundated with filth unbecoming of such a member.
• When Joseph sued the hospital for pain and suffering, he said that his relationship
with his wife hadn’t been the same since.
I guess it’s a test of true love; like, if you hold a butterfly too tightly it will
die.
If your wife can’t stand seeing you shit out of your wiener, it wasn’t meant to be.
4.
Awake and Anguished • In 2006, 73 year old Baptist minister
Sherman Sizemore went into hospital for exploratory surgery on his abdomen.
• The surgery went well, except that Sherman was awake for most of the procedure.
As if that weren’t bad enough, he could feel the slice of the scalpel and every painful
movement but was completely paralyzed.
Sherman’s anesthesia awareness was the result of a paralyzing anesthetic being administered
but the general anesthetic wasn’t given to him until almost 20 minutes into the procedure.
• Two short weeks after the operation, Sherman committed suicide.
The family claims that he’d suffered no mental health problems prior to this traumatic
event and hadn’t been the same since he’d returned from hospital.
3.
Lost and Found • Dirk Schroeder was having cancer removed
from his prostate and at first, all seemed to have gone as planned.
• But after weeks of intensifying agony in his abdomen, Dirk returned to the hospital.
The nurse discovered gauze oozing from one of his wounds.
The surgeons had left, not one, not two but 16 items in Dirk’s abdomen including a surgical
mask, bandages and a needle.
Maybe they were leaving some tools for the next guy to give the old guy a tune up.
• To add insult to injury the hospital refused to apologise, claiming that the surgical equipment
could have gotten into his abdomen AFTER the surgery.
As if Dirk was trying to make himself a real life version of the game ‘Operation’.
2.
One nut to another • In England, a patient that we’ll call
Bob went in for surgery to have a testicle removed after being diagnosed with testicular
cancer.
• So, the surgeon slices open Bob’s man-sack, only to remove the wrong man-berry. 40 minutes
into the procedure, the doctor realizes his mistake and in a panic tries to sow the healthy
love spud back into place.
• This attempt fails miserably, so they remove the cancerous nut and send the patient
on his way, with a nut-less sack.
I’m sure the post-op conversation went something like this, “Good news, you’re cancer free
AND you never have to worry about getting kicked in the balls again!”
1.
Moobs (Man-boobs) • Body builder and former Mr. Universe runner-up
Alexander Baez wanted to look ultra-muscle-y without all the hassle of hours at the gym.
• So he went in to get some pec implants.
The dodgy doc, however, decided that he’d give Alex some knock-out silicone breast implants
instead.
Alex says he kept waking up throughout the procedure in tears because he was given animal
tranquilizers instead of anesthetic.
• Turns out, not only was the doctor not a trained surgeon, he wasn’t even a doctor!
Reinaldo Silvestre botched hundreds of procedures and fled to Belize when he was about to be
arrested.
Oh well, at least Alex could pay for the surgery to fix his chest by doing some topless waitressing
under the name, Alexandra.