Deasy v. United States

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals from the district court’s judgment in favor of plaintiff John F. Deasy, Jr. in his Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit for medical malpractice. Plaintiff asserted that psychiatrists at Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals committed malpractice when they provided him only psychiatric treatment and failed to refer him for medical treatment of severe edema. He further claimed that as a result of the malpractice he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which prevents him from being able to receive the care at VA facilities to which he…