Las Vegas doctor accused of leaving nearly 5-foot-long wire inside patient

This high-stakes lawsuit will go down to the wire. German “OT” Ortiz wants $800,000 from the heart surgeon he blames for leaving a 57-inch “guide wire” stretching from his leg to his chest in 2005. The 70-year-old plaintiff claims he’d unknowingly been carrying the foreign object inside his body since it was left there during a 2005 heart operation in which it was used to guide a catheter from his thigh to his chest.