Legal Opinion
Monfore v. Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 10, 2015No. 13-7075PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Sherman Shatwell went to the hospital complaining of neck pain. Tests showed he probably had throat cancer. It was treatable but required immediate attention. Thanks to a variety of bureaucratic. blunders the news never made it to him. Instead, Mr. Shatwell was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. By the time he learned the truth a year later, it was too late.
Eventually, his widowed wife pursued negligence claims against the doctors and hospital. Through twenty months of motions practice and discovery and all the way through their submissions for the final…
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