HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act claiming that negligence by a neurosurgeon in the employ of the Government at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, while attempting surgical relief for severe facial pain, produced total loss of plaintiff Lurch's hearing in his left ear with a return of the pain symptoms sought to be relieved.
The central issue is whether the physician who treated the plaintiff was an employee of the...
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