Matt | April 10, 2009
Roy Moraga is an insulin dependent diabetic who also has Hepatitis C. He is not being treated for his Hepatitis. He also has hydradenitis supprativa (abscessed sweat glands) on buttocks, with large boils on back, neck, and under both arms, with cylinder shaped abscesses on scalp. This condition is extremely painful. In 2006, his untreated [read more...]
Matt | April 10, 2009
Charles Randolph’s medical records are very illegible. Ten of twenty-six lab reports are unreadable. And most of his medical kites cannot be deciphered. But one in particular is readily discernible.
Mr. Randolph submitted this medical kite to the Physician’s Assistant, Max Carter, on June 14, 2007. The kite asks why his medication was changed because he [read more...]
Matt | April 10, 2009
James Beverly is prescribed an albuterol inhaler but it is impossible to know why from reading this chart. His lab reports are also illegible. He is given cortizone shots in both shoulders which may be done because he has arthritis, but you can’t tell by reading his medical records. There is also a mass at [read more...]
Matt | April 9, 2009
Mr. N has Hepatitis C and is totally untreated. There is no indication in his chart why he is untreated or if any protocol for treatment has been used to evaluate his case. This prisoner has been on administrative segregation since 4/8/02, but no reason is given in the chart. He has intermittent abdominal pain, [read more...]
Matt | April 9, 2009
Terrence Brothers’ medical records are also largely illegible. He is 36 years old and apparently developed a bulging protusion after hernia surgery. It is unclear what, if anything has been done. X-rays in his records have conclusions that are deliberately blacked out and the practitioner signed them a year after they were taken. Like many [read more...]
Matt | April 9, 2009
Robert Chappell has an inguinal hernia and is wearing a truss. I have given my views on trusses. He also asked for surgery on the hernia but was refused. The lab reports in this record are totally illegible. He suffers from hemochromotosis, a condition in which a person has too much iron in their body. [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 8, 2009
Marty Fitzgerald has chronic neck pain that is caused by a congenitally narrow cervical canal. An MRI for his chronic neck pain was requested by an orthopedic consultant in June, 2006, but this was refused by the prison. He takes chronic acid blockers (Zantac), but has never been tested for heliobacter pylori even though it [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 8, 2009
Mr. O suffers from back pain and chronic headaches. Provider responses in these records tell him that ESP medical will not treat chronic pain. His records also show that he injured his right hand but no orthopedic consult was allowed.
Much of his chart seems to be missing. He had an MRI on 7/24/96, but there [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 8, 2009
James Mack has Hepatitis C, but has never been treated for the disease. Like other Hepatitis C positive inmates at ESP, there is no indication in his file as to why he is not receiving treatment or whether or not a treatment protocol was applied to his case.
Mr. Mack is hypothyroid. In 2005 he was [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 6, 2009
Jimmy Kirksey had leg pain in 2005 and saw the neurologist. He told the neurologist that his urine stream was irregular and exited sideways. As a result, the neurologist requested that he be seen by an urologist. But no referral was made by the prison doctors, there is no evidence of any urological consult in [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 6, 2009
Dennis McCabe has had several surgeries, and has suffered stab wounds. He is chronically anemic. He had three consults in 2004 for erythemia multiformi (large red raised areas that are related to allergy and autoimmune disorders). There are, however, no consult reports in his chart. Mr. McCabe was on vistaril (an antihistamine type drug used [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 6, 2009
Mr. L has a right inguinal hernia and is wearing a truss. Having a patient wear a truss for a hernia is not good medical practice. It weakens the inguinal ring and musculature and will, over time, make the hernia worse. The proper treatment is surgery if the patient can tolerate it. There appears to [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 4, 2009
Lawrence Seville Parks tested positive to heliobacter pylori in 2003 but medical providers have never given him any treatment or follow-up for that condition. He’s also been prescribed Indocin for years which can suppress bone marrow, and is very hard on kidneys and liver. Despite this, he has never had any indicated laboratory tests to [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 4, 2009
Mr. R is another prisoner on large doses of Indocin without any of the required lab follow-up. He is also on chronic stomach acid blockers but has never been tested for heliobacter pylori. He was treated in 2006 with oral ketoconazole (an anti-fungal) but this treatment was not followed with required lab testing to ensure [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | April 4, 2009
Norman Powell has a prosthetic in his right eye and glaucoma in his left eye. His glaucoma medications are almost never refilled on time which is unnecessarily straining the remaining eye. His vision comes and goes in the left eye, and it is sometimes gone for 48 hours. This temporary blindness in the left eye [read more...]
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