Legal Opinion
Shepard v. United States
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 11, 1993No. 89 CV 892 (ERK)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KORMAN, District Judge.
Dr. Gordon Diehl graduated from Boston University Dental School in May of 1986. Tr. 5. On July 1, 1986, he began his residency at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brooklyn. Id. On October 27, 1986, in the second month of his surgical rotation, Dr. Diehl extracted the lower third molar of Kenneth Shepard, a veteran of the United States Army, who had complained of pain in the lower left quadrant of his mouth. Tr. 49, 58-59, 77. Because the tooth was impacted severely, Dr. Diehl sectioned it with a drill and removed it piecemeal.…
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