VA patient has wrong testicle removed
 

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>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.
>
>Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left
>testicle removed 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. He still hasn't had the other testicle
>removed.
>
>"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?'"
>
>Houghton, his wife, Monica, and their attorney, Dr.
>Susan Friery, said they hoped to get the VA's
>attention by going public with the situation.
>
>Dr. Dean Norman, chief of staff for the Greater Los
>Angeles VA system, has formally apologized to Houghton
>and his wife.
>
>"We are making every attempt that we can to care for
>Mr. Houghton, but it's in litigation, and that's all
>we can tell you," he said. The hospital changed
>practices as a result of the case, he added.

I think part of the settlement should be the removal of the doctor's testicles. That'd make them pay more attention next time, huh?

The hospital now uses left handed doctors on right handed patients and right handed doctors on left handed patients. In the cases of ambidextrous patients the doctors are given bifocals and bifurcated instruments. :yikes: :sad: :eek:
When Doctors removed the right testicle which was the wrong testicle they left an indelible scar on the right right where they were wrong instead of on the left right where they would have been right. Right? The doctors should not have left the mistake on the right. They should have removed the left testicle which would have been the right testicle and then they would have been right. Except, of course, the patient would now have been castrated. Eventually his left testicle will likely have to be removed anyway. The mistaken castration of a man with the good right testicle, removed.
The patient still having his left testicle left with his right testicle removed. Now he is left with the left testicle instead of the right testicle which is not right. Right? When he left, what he had left was the right to suit for damages and was left with little choice but to pursue his right to the law which seems to be all that he has left. Right?

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never mind, I can't go thru that again...

That's just wrong.