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Medical Claims Standards Discussed
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 9
Ronald Brewer is an Iowa state prisoner. He suffers from coronary artery disease. Employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a contractor with the Iowa DOC, prescribed medicine for Brewer's illness but the treating doctor made an error in the dosage. Brewer filed suit claiming that he was denied the correct …
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