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I knew a guy years ago who was waiting for a million-dollar settlement he'd won from the Army--it was winding through appeals. He had a bruise on his leg that wouldn't heal, and it gave him pain for months. The Army docs kept giving him ibuprofin and telling him he was goldbricking, go back to duty--they never even did so much as an X-ray. While home on leave, the leg fractured for no apparent reason, and at the civilian hospital, they took the leg off at the hip that same night--bone cancer, and it was spreading. He was in critical condition for awhile. When the Army found out where he was they charged him with being AWOL or maybe even desertion, I forget. There were other charges too that had to do with seeking outside medical attention without permission or some such nonsense. The Army docs disputed that he could possibly have cancer.

They removed him from the civilian hospital by force and put him in jail instead of in a hospital, which he still needed. The family got a lawyer, and got their Senators and Congresscritters involved....he got a discharge and then sued. Anyway, of course I only knew his side of the story.