Exotic Medical Condition and Some Care: Deliberate Indifference Not Present for Clinicians
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 17, Number 01, November/December 2015 , pp.1-2(2)
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Abstract:
A two-time detainee/plaintiff with a rare and difficult-to-diagnose disease alleges deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Understaffing and lack of access to medical care on the part of the Sacramento jail? Perhaps. Deliberate indifference when even the expert diagnoses conflict? Not likely.Keywords: Tandel v. County of Sacramento , 2015 WL 1291377; Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM); Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO); neurological specialists; right optic nerve; head injury
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