Timothy Allen Bowers v. United States

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Timothy Allen Bowers sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Bowers claimed that the doctor who examined him during his pre-induction physical for the Air Force should have discovered the cancer then present in his body. Instead, the doctor pronounced Bowers fit for duty. Bowers’s cancer went untreated (thus the harm from the doctor’s alleged negligence). Bowers was then sworn in to the Air Force Reserve. He was scheduled to report for active duty some five months later. In the interim, a civilian doctor discovered and treated his cancer. The Air Force…