163118P.pdf   08/01/2017  Michelle Day  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3118
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. Where the government conceded it 
   provided substandard care when a VA radiologist failed to identify a 
   cancerous mass in the liver of the deceased, the district court did not 
   err in granting the government's motion for summary judgment on the ground 
   that plaintiff had failed to establish that the substandard care was the 
   proximate cause of death; with respect to plaintiff's claim for pain 
   damages, the court did not err in granting the government's motion for 
   summary judgment as the evidence in the record was insufficient to raise a 
   triable issue of fact as to whether any liver cancer treatment would have 
   alleviated any of the deceased's pain; because the medical malpractice 
   claims fail, so too must plaintiff's wrongful-death claims.