The veteran's death in August 2000 was due to a pulmonary abscess, which resulted from carelessness or negligence on the part of VA health care providers. The Board found that the appropriate antibiotics were not prescribed and this failure caused the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The independent medical expert concluded that the veteran's death was directly caused by VA's failure to prescribe the correct antibiotic for a pulmonary abscess, which is considered an event reasonably foreseeable in such cases.
- Claimed conditions
- Pulmonary Abscess, Pulmonary Hemorrhage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2007
- Citation
- 0709487
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