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CASE ON POINT: Williams v. Le, 2008-VA-0611.024 (06/06/2008) S.E.2d--VA
CASE FACTS: On May 26, 2005, Tawanda Williams saw Dr. Daniel Kaw, a physician at the Fair Oaks Kaiser Permanente Center (Kaiser) in Fairfax, Virginia, for pain in her right calf and leg. Dr. Kaw ordered a Doppler ultrasound (ultrasound) to be performed on Williams* calf within the Kaiser system in mid-June. A follow-up appointment was scheduled for "June 6 or PRN." On June 1,2005, Williams returned to Kaiser to see Dr. Paul McClain, her primary care physician. Williams complained of ankle pain and discomfort in her calf. She told Dr. McClain that she had "misstepped a few weeks earlier." Dr. McClain thought that Williams had a possible tear in the back of her calf muscle. He ordered an ankle x-ray lot June 1, 2005, and rescheduled the ultrasound to be performed within 48 hours. Williams went...
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