CORIZON REQUIRES PATIENTS TO BE UNNECESSARILY EXPOSED TO POTENTIAL CONTAGIONS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CARE
In what can only be described as sheer ignorance (or maybe it's just a "don't care - we do what we want attitude) Corizon Health Services Administrator Chris Johnson is now forcing prisoners to place themselves and others in harms way in order to receive prescribed medical treatment.
In a case of pure medical neglect, prisoner Dale Shackelford was prescribed the use of a TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) device by a medical provider to alleviate severe pain in his knees. While these TENS devices have been prescribed and distributed to several prisoners in ISCC and every other IDOC facility for years, Shackelford and others to whom these have been recently prescribed are told they are required to sit in the medical department to use the device for an hour or more at a time - several days per week, in crowded hallways or examination rooms with other patients being treated for issues such as oozing boils on their buttocks and dry hacking coughs, amongst many others.
When Shackelford complained about the procedure, he was advised that HSA Johnson no longer permits the TENS devices to be used outside the medical department, despite nearly a hundred having been distributed, and still being used for prisoner in-cell use. Indeed, the medical department continues to exchange old batteries for new to power the devices when prisoners need them to continue in-cell use.
Although Shackelford offered to purchase his own TENS device (and batteries) he was denied permission. Given only the options of sitting in a hallway with his pants down around his knees while IDOC staff, nurses, providers and other prisoners walk within inches of his face for five hours per week or not receiving treatment, Shackelford chose the safest route and (involuntarily) stopped treatment. He continues to suffer extreme pains that the TENS device would diminish were he to have one in his possession. In law, this is known as Deliberate Indifference to the medical needs of a patient.
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In a case of pure medical neglect, prisoner Dale Shackelford was prescribed the use of a TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) device by a medical provider to alleviate severe pain in his knees. While these TENS devices have been prescribed and distributed to several prisoners in ISCC and every other IDOC facility for years, Shackelford and others to whom these have been recently prescribed are told they are required to sit in the medical department to use the device for an hour or more at a time - several days per week, in crowded hallways or examination rooms with other patients being treated for issues such as oozing boils on their buttocks and dry hacking coughs, amongst many others.
When Shackelford complained about the procedure, he was advised that HSA Johnson no longer permits the TENS devices to be used outside the medical department, despite nearly a hundred having been distributed, and still being used for prisoner in-cell use. Indeed, the medical department continues to exchange old batteries for new to power the devices when prisoners need them to continue in-cell use.
Although Shackelford offered to purchase his own TENS device (and batteries) he was denied permission. Given only the options of sitting in a hallway with his pants down around his knees while IDOC staff, nurses, providers and other prisoners walk within inches of his face for five hours per week or not receiving treatment, Shackelford chose the safest route and (involuntarily) stopped treatment. He continues to suffer extreme pains that the TENS device would diminish were he to have one in his possession. In law, this is known as Deliberate Indifference to the medical needs of a patient.
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