Legal Opinion
John Doe Firm Doe v. Group Hospitalization & Medical Services, D/B/A Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital Area
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 18, 1993No. 92-2525PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
John Doe, a 59-year-old law partner of Firm Doe in Washington, D.C., was diagnosed in late 1991 with multiple myeloma, a rare and typically fatal form of blood cancer. His physician, Dr. Kenneth C. Anderson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, prescribed a treatment that involved an initial course of chemotherapy to reduce the percentage of tumor cells. Provided Doe responded to the therapy and achieved a “minimal disease status,” Dr. Anderson recommended that Doe then undergo high-dose chemotherapy and radiation therapy…
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