A military veteran with terminal prostate cancer survived long enough to get his day in court Monday, quietly observing opening arguments in a $50 million lawsuit filed against the Department of Veterans Affairs for alleged negligence. Steven Cooper, 45,  alleges that a VA nurse practitioner who examined him in late 2011 failed to order a blood test or make a specialist referral that could have detected the disease early, before it became incurable.

Source: Trial begins in suit over vet’s treatment at Phoenix VA hospital