Monday, November 12, 2007

Man fights to keep his testicle, Psychiatrist had waived his rights to keep it.

As seen in this report

Jail inmate Brandon Crewe didn't know he was in a Halifax hospital to have his testicle removed - an operation he hadn't agreed to - until hospital staff told him they didn't need his consent.

A jailhouse psychiatrist had already waived it for him.
But Crewe, whose other testicle was accidentally removed when he was an infant during a hernia operation, has now won the right to decide for himself whether the operation should be performed, and he has been released from hospital.

Crewe, an inmate at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth, has a lump in his left testicle, likely due to testicular cancer.
At least he gets a chance to decide his own fate.

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