What constitutes a "serious medical need" in a medical malpractice case?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. United States, CASE No. 1:11-cv-01562-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2013):
6. "Serious medical needs" encompass conditions that are life-threatening or that carry risks of permanent serious impairment if left untreated, those that result in needless pain and suffering when treatment is withheld and those that have been diagnosed by a physician as mandating treatment. Scarver v. Litscher, 371 F.Supp.2d 986, 999 (W.D. Wis. 2005), citing Gutierrez v. Peters, 111 F.3d 1364, 1369 (7th Cir. 1997).
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