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- Title
Quack - A Killer in Disguise: a Case Report.
- Authors
Tingne, Chaitanya Vidyadhar; Ghormade, Pankaj Suresh; Kumar, Narendra Baluram; Keoliya, Ajay Narmadaprasad
- Abstract
Quack is one of the several pejorative names used for doctors or peddlers using supposedly ineffective medicines and it also relates to advertising. Quacks are practicing in every field of medicine, field of surgery being no exempt. Quackery in surgical field is mainly in the treatment of anal canal and perineal diseases. Some of the people are really happy for visiting them and declaring their ailments being cured. But many of them have to repent for, mainly because their original problem gets complicated and the price for treating the complication proves at times to be too burdensome than the price incurred for treating the original ailment. We present a fatal case where a person with scrotal swelling, actually being an inguinal hernia, was misdiagnosed and operated upon as hydrocele by a quack.
- Subjects
QUACKS &; quackery; INGUINAL hernia; ANUS; HYDROCELE; DIAGNOSTIC errors
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p216
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5958/0973-9130.2015.00052.3