after hearing the grim diagnosis, the man went out to enjoy what was left of his life, spending his entire life savings in the process. However, months past and the man was still alive and well, as it turned out that he did not have brain cancer. The man filed a lawsuit against the hospital seeking to recover the money he spent.
Now, a judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay about $60,000 to the man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had only months to live.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled that Mark Templin and his family’s suffering was caused by negligence on part of the hospital.
Molloy’s decision noted that in the months of which Templin thought he was dying, he quit his job, sold his truck, celebrated his last birthday, bought a prearranged funeral and contemplated suicide. His son-in-law also built a box for his ashes.
It turns out that Templin had suffered several small strokes.
“I can’t imagine the pain this man and his family went through believing that he will die shortly. The judge did the right thing by making the hospital pay for their grave mistake,” Heather Alvarez, 22, of Helena, Montana told after learning about the judge’s ruling.
“It’s hard to put a price on the anguish of a man erroneously convinced of his imminent death,” Molloy wrote. “Templin lived for 148 days under the mistaken impression that he was dying of metastatic brain cancer,” the judge continued.
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