A mortified ICU specialist has shared how she mistakenly showed an ophthalmologist a close-up photo of a penis, while asking if the image was a possible outcome for a patient’s eye.

In a brave post on Twitter, Dr Rosie Baruah, from the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, relived the awful moment she realised she “hadn’t looked closely enough” before showing the doctor the medical journal image while seeking his opinion.

“I said: ‘Is this the worst-case scenario for the eye?’ and showed him the pic and it was so awful I have to go and hide now.”

Tonight’s on call highlight so far: showing an ophthalmologist a journal article picture of an eye and turns out it was actually a **penis** cos I hadn’t looked closely enough and now I can never speak to a visiting ophthalmologist ever EVER again.