Medical malpractice against VA doctor

Question:

Hi Jim, I pray to god you can help me because everyone else has been giving me the run around. I have a bad back; I've had it for quite a while my medical record indicates that's. On April 12, 2017 I was sent to the pain clinic in the XX VA Hospital for lower back issues. A doctor who I had never met before came into the room and asked me to stand up and bend back as far as I could, when I was at the point in which I could no longer bend back any further on my own, this doctor who at the time was standing behind me placed both of his hands on my shoulders and yanked my shoulders & back, back further than they had already been extended to. Directly after doing so he ran out of the examining room faster than Usain Bolt,  never to be seen again and without saying a word to the Nurse Practitioner or Myself. As soon as he did this to me, I felt and heard to distinctive clicks/pops in my neck. I left the pain clinic and went straight home which took about a half hour. When I got home the pain set in and it was excruciating and quite unbearable, however is wasn't anything I hadn't already experienced in the past. The fact of the matter is that in the past it only lasted a couple of days at the most. This time it was constant - I could not turn my head to the right,  the pain radiated into my shoulder blade my bicep, elbow, forearm and my right hand was numb. I went to see a neurologist and had an MRI done which showed four discs in my neck that had slipped into my spine and were preventing the spinal fluid from passing thru my spine. The prognosis was I would go paralyzed unless I had emergency surgery on my neck. I was encouraged by a case worker at the veteran affair to file a Tort claim for medical malpractice and was told that I would get a copy of the investigator's report after they had rendered a decision. Well they denied my claim but the attorney who was handling the claim told me that I could not see a copy of the report that it was lawyer confidential. So, I ask you do I, or do I not get a copy of the report? My fear is that they are withholding information in that report or perhaps it doesn't jive with the decision to deny my claim. O’yea I was told that what this doctor did to me was a maneuver that they perform on all patients to see if they are a good candidate for the procedure, they are about to perform on them. I said so someone comes to you with a bad back and you overextend it, thinking nothing bad is going to happen? I told them That is Bullsh_t!!

Jim's Reply:

If an attorney is denying you documents you believe you should see, your only choice is to find another lawyer. I'd suggest you talk to any or all the lawyers you'll find here...