Carolyn Hurley, Individually, and as Parent and Guardian of James T. McNey v. United States of America Clinical Data, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

EDWARD S. SMITH, Senior Circuit-Judge:

Carolyn Hurley, individually and as parent and guardian of James T. McNey, sued the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act 1 alleging medical malpractice by staff personnel at the National Institutes of Health. In this appeal, she claims that defendant breached the standard of care, thereby proximately causing its patient, McNey, to lose a substantial possibility of a successful recovery. The United States District Court for the District of Maryland concluded that a loss of a substantial possibility of successful recovery was not a cause of…