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requiring immediate care

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The court found that many physician progress notes and other medical records were missing, there was no written definition of a medical emergency requiring immediate care, there were numerous delays in responding to inmate requests for medical care, there was no suicide prevention training nor written policies, and potentially suicidal inmates were often isolated physically and provided with little or no counseling.
He experiences both petit mal and grand mal seizures: the worst of these leave him unconscious, writhing, vomiting and hitting his head: they constitute a medical emergency requiring immediate care.
The court found that many physician progress notes and other medical records were missing, there was no written definition of a medical emergency requiring immediate care, there were numerous delays in responding to inmate requests for medical care, there was no suicide prevention training nor written policies, and potentially suicidal inmates were often isolated physically and provided with little or no counseling.
 
 
 
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