The Veteran's dysphagia is denied as the evidence does not support a finding of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill or similar incidence of fault on the part of VA personnel. The Board finds that a reasonable person in similar circumstances would have proceeded with the UPPP procedure even if informed of the foreseeable risk of dysphagia.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a finding of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill or similar incidence of fault on the part of VA personnel. The Board finds that a reasonable person in similar circumstances would have proceeded with the UPPP procedure even if informed of the foreseeable risk of dysphagia.
- Claimed conditions
- dysphagia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2018
- Citation
- 18139973
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