Veteran Files Claim After Botched VA Surgery (removed healthy testicle instead cancerous one)

Newsmax ^ | 4-5-2007 | staff writer

[bedolido]

LOS ANGELES -- An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.

[bedolido]

note: talked about on Rush's show today.

[TommyDale]

If he goes to court, this will be a hard nut to crack.

[cripplecreek]

Was it the left one or the right one?

I don’t know why but it seems important.

[lovecraft]

This is so NOT cool man.

[johnny7]

This is the kind of story you expect seeing out of India... Bangladesh or some African hellhole. More sure signs of our slow but steady decline.

[bedolido]

how do you tell... when you look down it may be the left one.... when the doctor is looking at you it’s his right. No wonder the doctor was confused.

[gov_bean_ counter]

No doctor, MY right!!

[cripplecreek]

In a hospital you have to consider the number of people who would be involved and potentially confused.

[shadeaud]

Surgeon should volunteer one of his

[Diogenesis]

How can the surgeon have the balls to show up for morning rounds?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Surgeon should volunteer one of his

Or check the audit files of your local IRS office.

[verum ago]

Surgeon should volunteer one of his

i guess technically and metaphorically it takes balls to lose one...

[bedolido]

maybe now is the time for testicle tranplants... they do it for kidneys, hearts and other organs. Why not testicle transplants. I agree... the doctor should volunteer one of his own in this experimental operation.

[gdani]

This is enough to make one half nuts!

[eyedigress]

I believe most people portend to “give up the left one” for whatever the trade.

[SengirV]

Ugggghhhhhhhh. It feels like someone kicked me in the Jimmy’s and I just READ the story. I can’t imagine how this guys feels.

I hope he already has kids. It only referenced himself and his wife in the story.

[Nakota]

I think he should just take his ball and go home!

[FixitGuy]

"The hospital changed practices as a result of the case, he added."

What are they gonna do next? ..Take both of them just to be sure???...

[Mr.Unique]

This is the kind of story you expect seeing out of India... Bangladesh or some African hellhole.

Since this was a VA hospital, you may not be far off...at least as far as the doctor's home of origin is concerned.

[American_Centurion]

My only concern is, who’s sperm is produced? The previous owner’s or the current one’s?

I’m not a physician and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.