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  • Vet Claims Docs Removed Wrong Testicle

    04/05/2007 10:00:02 PM PDT · by Larry Lucido · 48 replies · 960+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 4/4/2007 | AP
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Air Force veteran filed a federal claim after undergoing an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one. Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed on June 14 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center because there was a chance it could harbor cancer cells. It also was atrophied and painful. But doctors mistakenly removed the right testicle, according to medical records and the claim, which seeks $200,000 for future care and unspecified damages. "At first I thought it...