Sobel v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAM A. CROW, Senior District Judge.

This case comes before the court on plaintiffs motion for entry of default, and on defendant’s motion to dismiss. The plaintiff is a physician who brings suit pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging negligence in a report by the VA Hospital to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) which found him responsible for the death of a patient.

Background

Plaintiff is a hospitalist who has practiced medicine since 1987. In 2003, he was employed as a physician at the Colmery-O’Neill Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.…