A Friend of mind at the age of 70 was incarcerated for a "Alcohol" related crime.
He enter the Jail with all the symptoms of Liver damage, unknown to all of us at the time.
Since my research on this disease, the SYMPTOMS WERE LOUD AND CLEAR. Yet, he went undiagnosed and untreated, although he had seen the Jail Physician more than once.
By the time he was released his medically condition was so life threatening he had to be rushed to the Emergency room. He was immediately diagnosed with Cirrhosis of the Liver. he almost died had this gone on much longer.
I believe he has a Medical Malpractice suit against the County Jail's Physician, any input?
Just with this information would you agree that his Eight Amendment right was violate- Prisoners right to proper Medical care?
JC
If he had cirrhosis of the liver, he had it long before he ended up in jail. Jailhouse physicians are not specialists.
laughter_every_day
It is possible but there are barriers. First, you would have to show that the delay in treatment was the result of medical malpractice and that any reasonable physician would have made the diagnosis (based on what the prisoner told the doc) and then consciously disregarded the information. Furthermore, you would have to show some harm from the delay in treatment. That is, you would have to show that if he had started treatment earlier then he would have been cured. All of that seems unlikely, but your question is necessarily based on incomplete info.
Orignal From: If you were incarcerated, and went untreated for a life threatening disease that had ALL THE Symptoms ?
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