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· 5/2/2000

Iris Meléndez Vega v. Caribbean International News, Gaspar Roca, José A. Purcell, Etc.

Citations

  • 2000 TSPR 101

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that a prison nurse practitioner was not deliberately indifferent for departing from a specialist’s suggestion that an inmate receive high-top shoes for plantar fasciitis where the inmate did not exercise his ability to purchase acceptable shoes from commissary
  • in assessing deliberate indifference court must “look at the totality of an inmate’s medical care”

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