The Magic Tonsillectomy or Armstrong's Voodoo Science?

[Albert Doyle]

"Points"? I thought this was about facts. Silly me.

It makes sense that if Oswald was missing other scars this physical discrepancy deserves more consideration. In my mind in 1945 a tonsillectomy was a tonsillectomy. That was a minor surgical procedure that removed the tonsils. In 1945 could a doctor get away with not doing the formal definition of the procedure while referring to it in writing as a tonsillectomy? I think it would be both a violation of law and medical ethics to describe a procedure that wasn't done. Since tonsils are known to infect easily and cause problems would a medical doctor risk his license by not removing the tonsils when they could then infect and have to be removed later? What would the doctor say if the patient had serious complications from tonsils that weren't removed? How would he explain it as a registered doctor in Texas prone to medical standards?

Any chance there's no record of this because the handlers knew it would create a physical conflict between the doubles? That the hospital records were destroyed exactly because of that potential conflict?