Veteran Claims Docs Removed Wrong Testicle

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

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 was a joke," Houghton told the Los Angeles Times. "Then I was shocked. I told them, 'What do I do now?'"

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/04/national/a193426D55.DTL

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Oh how awful...

:-(

[LiberalFighter]

2. It should be an eye for an eye... etc..

Doc should lose the same testicle in addition to $200,000

[slackmaster]

3. That's what Sharpie marking pens are for

You write "GOOD" on the good testicle side of your scrotum before they put you under.