A BRONX MAN SUES THE CITY AFTER MEDICS THROW HIS EAR IN THE TRASH!

A Bronx hospital and the city are really hearing it from a Bronx man whose ear was thrown in the garbage.
Eduardo Garcia, 67, filed a lawsuit after emergency service workers tossed out his ear - which was ripped off by a dog - because they feared it was too risky to reattach it.

"Now, he's got a deformity," said Garcia's lawyer, Andrew Friedman. "They deprived him of an opportunity to have treatment."

A bull terrier belonging to Garcia's son bit off a large chunk of his upper ear on May 10, 2008, his lawyer said.

Emergency workers packed the salvaged ear on ice in the ambulance, but when the ambulance arrived at Montefiore Medical Center, the EMS workers threw the ear in the trash, according to the suit filed in Bronx Supreme Court.

Hospital records say the ear was tossed because of " the potential risk of contamination or infection" if it was reattached.

But Friedman said the Bronx father should have had the option to rebuild his ear and was instead left with 22 stitches, two staples and life without a lobe.

Yesterday, the city filed its own suit against Montefiore, alleging EMS workers were only following hospital orders when they threw the hunk of flesh in the trash.

Garcia declined to comment, as did a spokesman for Montefiore.