Jean M. Wachter Robert Wachter v. United States

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

Jean M. Wachter appeals from an order granting defendant, the United States, summary judgment in Wachter’s Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C.A. § 2671 et seq., suit for medical malpractice. The district court found no evidence creating genuine issues that harm had accrued to Wachter from the misrepresentations and failures to disclose that she alleged. We agree, and affirm.

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Wachter, then fifty-five years old, entered the Bethesda Naval Hospital (“Bethesda”) for double coronary artery bypass surgery on March 1, 1983. Wachter’s attending surgeon during this…