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When reached for comment, Chowdhary confirmed that anatomical differences were at the root of the problem.

Salte said the error could have easily been made by other physicians. The issue was the way Chowdhary dealt with his mistake.

The parents became worried about the complications, and took their son to another physician, who expressed “concerns” about the circumcision. The parents then returned J.T. to Chowdhary for another consultation in October 2014.

The doctor denied that there had been any mistake. He claimed that the condition was normal and noted that the circumcision appeared to have healed well.

“Following your examination of J.T. you advised his parents that J.T. would grow out his condition and that no further surgery would be needed, or used words of similar meaning,” the college said.

All of this was inaccurate, according to Salte.

“It needed corrective surgery and there was a fairly significant amount of corrective surgery that was required,” he said. “Based upon our information, misadvising the parents about the concerns was the nature of the charge.”

Chowdhary admitted to the charges of unprofessional conduct related to the case.

On March 16, the college formally reprimanded Chowdhary and ordered him to pay the full costs of the investigation and hearing. That totalled $10,051.

But Chowdhary continues to maintain that he was unaware of the problem when he provided inaccurate information to the parents in October. Salte said it’s difficult to determine whether he misled the parents knowingly or unknowingly.

“Thats always a difficult thing, when wrong information has been given. Is it wrong information because someone was careless? Is it wrong information because it’s covering up?” he said. “Or is it wrong information for some other reason.”

Chowdhary strongly denied that he misinformed the parents intentionally.

“It wasn’t covering up the mistake, no,” he said. “It was just that I didn’t recognize it at the time.”

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