Karen P. Miller v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that discovery rule may deprive patient of right to place trust and confidence in physician
• recognizing that “the rationale for this tolling theory only permits its application when the treatment at issue is for the same problem and by the same doctor, or that doctor’s associates or other doctors operating under his direction”
• finding that federal law governed the limitations period for all claims made pursuant to the FTCA
• explaining that “[s]tate law determines whether there is an underlying cause of action” in an FTCA suit
• \[S]tate law determines whether there is an underlying cause of action; but federal law defines the limitations period and determines when that cause of action accrued.\
• “[F]ederal law defines the limitations period and determines when that cause of action accrued” for all claims made pursuant to the FTCA”

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