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Private Physician Subject to Section 1983 Liability
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 3
Private physicians who show deliberate indifference to prisoners serious medical needs may be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 even though they are not prison employees. With the increased trend of prison systems contracting out prisoner medical care this fourth circuit decision firmly reestablishes the states obligation to provide medical ...
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