Not a Bargain

There’s a saying in Texas: “I’d give my left nut to….” The guy making the statement is, in effect saying, the value perceived defies a numerical value. According to a Pennsylvania court, the value is $670,000. Heres-what-you-can-collect-when-a-surgeon-chops-off-the-wrong-testicle.

Math has never been my strong point, and the article is not clear, but my reading is that this is not a left nut price but a per pair price and therefore not the windfall as it first appeared.

Follow my logic. The doctor and patient agreed that his right nut had to go. Had the operation been successful, the patient would still have had one testicle. However, the doctor got confused and took the healthy left testicle. Not said, in the article, is that the doctor realized his mistake and removed the diseased testicle also. Score doctor testicles 2, patient 0. To my way of thinking that $670 K is a per pair price.

I don’t understand how this happened, chances are the doctor is able to read his handwriting on a golf ball. I thought it went without saying, “Mark your balls.”