Dr. Thomas Coyne

And that if that catheter is left in place, it can actually block the normal blood flow within that vessel, causing ischemia, as we say, or lack of blood flow to the testicle, which could cause that testicle to die.

It can be very painful as well.

Oh, that, I don't know.

I don't know how that process happened.

But the catheter, I mean, listen, there's been plenty of cases throughout, you know, my time during training where there's been instruments left in patients, wrong size operated on, you know, small little cloth pieces left inside a body during a surgery.

So it does happen.

And generally it's just carelessness.

You're worried too much about closing or a bleeding area and you leave a catheter in place.

And so that's probably what happened in that instance.

As to the testicle incident, certainly testicular torsion can happen.

In males, I don't know what went wrong there.

The official COD is multiple sharp force injuries, a.k.a.

likely that the knife slit their throat.

And reports say that even if he is released from this high observation unit, he will still be very closely monitored and still kept in solitary.