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Seventh Circuit Remands Case Concerning Treatment of Prisoner's Hemorrhoids
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 44
On July 23, 2012, after expediting a prisoner's appeal, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the district court to likewise act promptly following remand. The appellate court said such action was necessary because the plaintiff was experiencing "excruciating pain" due to his golf ball-sized hemorrhoids.
Filed under:
Wexford Health Services,
Medical,
Gastrointestinal,
Failure to Treat.
Location:
Illinois.
Illinois state prisoner Anthony …
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