Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding author: Chaitanya Vidyadhar Tingne, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Phone no: +91 982 286 4460, E- mail: ctingne@gmail.com
Online published on 5 January, 2015.
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.
Quack, Inguinal Hernia, Hydrocele
