Deliberate Indifference

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal court in Colorado <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/deliberateindifference.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a> that a nurse is not entitled to qualified immunity in a dispute brought by a pre-trial detainee, who claims the nurse was deliberately indifferent to his condition – later diagnosed as ocular syphilis – and falsely reported that he was fine. </span>

DENVER – A federal court in Colorado ruled that a nurse is not entitled to qualified immunity in a dispute brought by a pretrial detainee, who claims the nurse was deliberately indifferent to his condition – later diagnosed as ocular syphilis – and falsely reported that he was fine.

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