Joseph B. McDonald and Delois C. McDonald v. United States

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• holding that a two-year limitations period governing a malpractice claim arising out of surgeiy performed at a Veterans Administration Hospital was tolled due to a physician's postoperative assurances that complete recovery could take as long as three to five years
• finding “a patient may reasonably rely upon the assurances of a physician”
• “Since a patient may rely upon the advice of his treating physician, McDonald had no reason to doubt the advice of his physician and inquire about any injury or its cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).