Nichols v. United States

MEMORANDUM ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING JUDGMENT TO DEFENDANT

ROBINSON, District Judge.

This medical malpractice action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act was tried to the Court on December 2-4, 2003. Plaintiff claims that Defendant United States of America acted negligently in failing to timely diagnose micronodular basal cell carcinoma. Plaintiff contends that Defendant should have diagnosed this skin cancer no later than February 1998; and that the delay until her diagnosis in July 1999 caused her to undergo a more invasive and disfiguring surgery affecting her nose and cheek area.…