Is the Feres Doctrine fair?

The legal precedent that protects the U.S. military from medical malpractice suits is challenged

ByTravis J. Tritten

Stars and Stripes

Published: June 19, 2011

Staff Sgt. Dean Witt would likely still be alive and raising his two children if an Air Force hospital had not botched a routine appendectomy.

Medical staff at Travis Air Force Base in California committed mistake after mistake following Witt’s 2003 surgery — including pushing a breathing tube into his stomach and using resuscitation equipment designed for children — that left the blond-haired, blue-eyed airman in a persistent vegetative state until he was finally removed from life support three months later by his family.

Read the entire story here.