(September 24, 2018, 7:16 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A veterans hospital emergency room physician’s failure to perform a risky procedure on a patient having a severe allergic reaction to eating shrimp did not cause the man’s death, a Missouri federal judge concluded Sept. 10. Evidence presented during a bench trial against the federal government showed that the procedure would likely not have saved the patient’s life, the judge said (Jada Weldon v. United States, No. 16-00381, W.D. Mo., Western Div.)....