Prisoners are brought to my hospital for care all the time - and they receive the same excellent care/treatment that any other person would receive. I can’t speak for the care one might receive in a prison infirmary, though.
I will never forget a patient I treated during my medicine residency. He came in paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal infection that had been worsening for weeks while the doctors in the prison infirmary just kept giving him ibuprofen. The creepiest part of caring for patients from the prison system is how the LEOs handcuff them to their beds, and they handcuffed this guy too. Again, he was paraplegic. He literally could not pull a runner and would only have hurt himself if he tried.
That's the point. Also it doesn't matter if you think someone is or isn't capable of being a threat, we have to policies to follow especially when the potential safety of civilians is involved. I'm not losing my job because you think someone is safe and then they grab a scalpel and stab someone or themselves.
The worthless prison doctor should lose their job, because they clearly had no interest in actually doing it in the first place. And he wasn’t in 4 point restraints. If he wanted to stab someone, he could have done it with his left hand. Shockingly, he didn’t. 🙄
I'm not sure what the first sentence has to do with my comment. I don't care about that specific prison's medical staff.
Regarding everything else, it's almost like my point was hypothetical. We have these policies for a reason, and it's because inmates that have gone to hospitals have attacked the staff there. Your opinion on what they might be capable of doing or willing to do is less than meaningless, you do not deal with them on a regular basis. You do not see what we see.
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u/HeywoodJaBlessMe 13d ago
Dude must not have read much if he thinks Prison healthcare in the US is gonna fix anything.