Bull

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division EDWIN B. BULL, Case No. 22-cv-05303-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS

v. Re: ECF No. 19 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff sued the United States under the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) for medical malpractice and failure to obtain his informed consent for a surgery he had at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA) to remove cancerous lesions from his skin. A dermatopathologist evaluated the lesions after the surgery and the plaintiff was told that no residual cancer remained. Because the VA did not have a dermatopathologist on staff at the time of the surgery, it contracted with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to provide those services. The complaint alleges that the findings were inaccurate, the surgery did not remove the melanoma, the plaintiff had a second surgery,…