>You can read horror stories of prison companies only having one underpaid doctor for multiple prisons forcing inmates to wait weeks to get treatment for basic injuries, leading to broken bones healing incorrectly, or dying from appendicitis.
In federal prison, we used to joke that the most dangerous gang was Medical. A guy I knew got a brown recluse bite on his foot and medical mis-diagnosed it as a broken bone. They put a cast on his foot and three weeks later had to amputate right below his knee.
In federal prison, we used to joke that the most dangerous gang was Medical. A guy I knew got a brown recluse bite on his foot and medical mis-diagnosed it as a broken bone. They put a cast on his foot and three weeks later had to amputate right below his knee.