May 23, 2013 9:00 — 0 Comments

Hospital Pays $60K to Man After False Brain Tumor Diagnosis

After doctors gave him only a few months to live, Mark Templin quit his job, sold his truck, celebrated his final birthday and made his own funeral arrangements — only he wasn’t dying after all. Now, a Montana judge has ordered that the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center pony up nearly $60,000 for a doctor’s “negligent failure to meet the standard of care” in falsely diagnosing Templin with a metastatic brain tumor. Click here to read the full story.

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