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.

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