Balls-up at VA hospital.

Offered without comment, but with much sympathy:

Damn. thats nuts!
Er, I mean nut. Singular.

Well, I don’t believe this story.

Paul Krugman has assured us that V.A. health care is a model for the whole country:

*"Well, I know about a health care system that has been highly successful in containing costs, yet provides excellent care. And the story of this system’s success provides a helpful corrective to anti-government ideology. For the government doesn’t just pay the bills in this system – it runs the hospitals and clinics.

No, I’m not talking about some faraway country. The system in question is our very own Veterans Health Administration, whose success story is one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate."*

*Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Testicles of GI Joe
Good or bad, who’s to know
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

My doctor sold me
On cutting the very best one
And you are it.*

I love you, man!

Even in a well run hospital, a screwup can happen.

The VA is in general very well run. Doesn’t mean this particular veteran doesn’t have a claim.

Cite (apart from the above)?

This is anecdotal, but I just read a letter that was in my local paper this last weekend:

He is only asking for $200,000?? Good grief, I’d be asking for a lot more than that. Especially if the other one ends up having to go as well. I would need a lot more comp than that to spend the rest of my life as a eunuch.

I swear to gahd, if I ever have to have an operation on any paired body part, I’m gonna have “NOT THIS ONE, YOU IDIOT!” indelibly tattooed on the other one.