Say What? Man with Ear Ache Gets Vasectomy
 

Thu August 21, 2003 08:32 AM ET

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...t&section=news

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man who went to a clinic to have an aching ear checked ended up having a vasectomy after mistakenly believing that the doctor had called his name.
A manager at the Doctor Jose Carlos de Espirito Santo clinic in the town of Montes Claros in southeastern Minas Gerais State told Reuters on Wednesday Valdemar Lopes de Moraes, 39, entered the vasectomy room when Aldemar Aparecido Rodrigues' name was called.

"He was called by the full name and yet thought it was him. But the strangest thing is that he asked no questions when the doctor started preparations in the area which had so little to do with his ear," Vanessa Guimaraes said.

"He later explained that he thought it was an ear inflammation that got down to his testicles," she added.

De Moraes, a farmer who has two children, did not want to reverse the operation, performed last week, and showed up for an ear exam on Wednesday at the same clinic.

"A local newspaper said he is going to sue us, but he did not tell us about any claims," Guimaraes said.
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Ear inflamation in his testicles?! Those words do not even belong in the same sentence.

um ouch.

an ear inflammation that got down to his testicles???

thats one strange ear inflammation! :hmm:

Well, it looks as if the world has been spared from more Idiot genes being passed on....

Umm, when your in for an ear ache and the Doc says to pull down your pants, puts a needle in your testicles, when do you say wait a second Doc? It's good he can't have kids anymore.

You know, it's all very well laughing over this part of the story... But what about the poor git who'd been going for a vasectomy and now can't hear bugger-all!!!!?

:D

so which one's the dip-shit? Dr. or patient

---now it's "no harm--just charm"

(he will send that doctor a thank you card, in a few months:D)

been there done that

cnor: most people in a hospital gown don't exactly have their ID on them anymore. If you willingly come when you call a complete name, and don't protest at all when they're putting scissors to your nuts... I would have to say you qualify to be called a dip-shit.

And a numbnuts :)

I agree with Miked... Though next time his wife tells him she's pregnant, he won't hear it, so it's all good :D

sounds like someone shouldn´t have been such a sexist pig to the nurse.

so says the guy with gellar and the girl i can't remember lesbo kissing in his avatar! :P

PIG! hehe

so he is going to sue them but still is gonna keep the vasectomy? sounds like he got something extra for free...

but i'm sure ear infections could move down.

lol.
guilty.
sorry.

Well what if the man wants a baby?

Still kinda sux ya know :\

It says he already has two children, and that he did not want to reverse the operation (which i assume means he had the option to)