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BOWERS v. U.S.

No. 89-1655.

904 F.2d 450 (1990)

Timothy Allen BOWERS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Reeves, Caruthersville, Mo., for appellant.

Lowell V. Sturgill, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

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...

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