Legal Opinion
Schunk v. United States
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 2, 1992No. 1:87-mj-01047PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLATT, Chief Judge.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
INTRODUCTION
This matter came on for trial May 1, 1990, upon the complaint of Michael Schunk, a Vietnam veteran. Plaintiff claims that, between 1979 and 1985, doctors at the Veterans Administration Medical Centers in Long Beach, California (“Long Beach VA”) and in Northport, New York (“Northport VA”) committed medical malpractice by failing to diagnose properly the cause of his chronic headaches and pain before prescribing benzodiazepines 1 and narcotic analgesics in such a manner that plaintiff “might” have become addicted to them. See…
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