Socialized medicine strikes again.

From Forbes via Yahoo! News:

Eel Removed from Man's Penis

A Chinese man thought he would look years younger after bathing with live eels in a spa treatment designed to remove dead skin, writes the . Instead, one of the eels meant to eat the man's dead skin cells decided to enter his penis through the urethra.

OMG.

According to , Zhang Nan, 56, tried to grab the six-inch eel before it could swim all the way up inside him, but the eel was too slippery for him.

"I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too slippery to be held and it disappeared up my penis," he said.

Rushing himself to hospital, the man underwent a three-hour operation to remove the six-inch eel which was dead by the time doctors found it.