(February 13, 2018, 2:10 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A veterans affairs appeals board improperly discounted a man’s lay testimony regarding his diagnosis while accepting a largely irrelevant and “difficult to decipher” medical opinion, a U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims judge held Jan. 29 (Arthur M. Bernal v. David J. Shulkin, et al., No. 16-3524, U.S. App. Vet. Clms., 2018 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 89)....