Legal Opinion
Dux v. United States
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 24, 2014No. Case No. 11 CV 7142PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER
JOAN B. GOTTSCHALL, United States District Judge
In December 2009, doctors at the Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Administration in Maywood, Illinois, told John Dux that tissue from Dux’s prostate tested positive for cancer. On the advice of his doctors, Dux underwent a surgical procedure known as a radical prostatectomy. During the months following the surgery, Dux suffered from incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and depression. In February 2010, the VA doctors told Dux that they were wrong — they had mistakenly switched the tissue from Dux’s biopsy with that of another…
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