Prisoner's Diagnosis

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal court in Connecticut <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/carcinoma.pdf"><strong>declined</strong></a> to dismiss a prisoner’s civil rights suit against a prison doctor. The prisoner alleges the physician was “deliberately indifferent towards his facial lesion, which was later diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma.” The doctor did not order a biopsy or a follow-up appointment. </span>

ENFIELD, Conn. – A federal court in Connecticut declined to dismiss a prisoner’s civil rights suit against a prison doctor. The prisoner alleges the physician was “deliberately indifferent towards his facial lesion, which was later diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma.” The doctor did not order a biopsy or a follow-up appointment.

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