Baker v. Blanchette.

• Position: MEDICAL CARE - Case regarding lack of medical care - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

DELAY IN CARE

Baker v. Blanchette, 186 F.Supp.2d 100 (D.Conn. 2001). A prisoner brought a [section] 1983 action against a prison physician alleging that a delay in surgery violated his Eighth Amendment rights. The district court denied summary judgment for the physician, finding that the four month delay in surgery that would have closed the prisoner's colostomy may...