Minneapolis, 10/26 [Burbia Satire Wire] - Doctors, performing prostate surgery on a man in Minneapolis, mistakenly removed his prostrate, leaving the man with his diseased prostate and, now, without a perfectly healthy prostrate.

The patient, Leonard Gold, 67, was outraged and expressed as much when, from his hospital bed, told of the medical error, he shouted, "What!? Are you fucking kidding!!?"

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Wikopedia is reporting this as the first documented case of surgeons confusing the prostate with the prostrate (although anecdotal reports of the surgical mistake exist).

Among men the terms have come to be almost indistinguishable. Whether you say to a guy, "So, how's your prostate, Keith?" or "So, how's your prostrate, Keith?" the meaning is usually construed as identical.

Very few men, in other words, know the difference.

However, urologists, and especially urological surgeons, are supposed to know that when you're targeting the patient's prostate for removal, or radiation, you leave his prostrate alone.

Gold is particularly incensed, and said to be contemplating litigation, because, he screamed, "Even though I don't know what the fuck a prostrate is, they weren't supposed to go near it!

"I didn't have cancer of the fucking prostrate! I had cancer of the prostate!

"And so they leave my cancer in, and take my non-cancer out?! What the fuck!?

"Now, they'll have to go in again, and they'll probably remove my other fucking prostrate! Aren't there two of them? Or just one?"

Gold's doctors have reassured him they've learned from the mistake. The performing surgeon, they told him, was beaten nearly to death by colleagues in group supervision shortly after the debacle was established.

And they informed him that the blood transfusion he received during his surgery was contaminated with hepatitis C, an oversight, they said, they've corrected, to ensure it won't happen again.

Gold was said to be frantically courting a response from Al Franken, the Senator from Minnesota, who, staff said, has been "rendered immobilized, and utterly ineffectual" by doubts that he legitimately won the election against ex-Senator Norm Coleman in their recent, controversial Senate race....read more blogs