Ortiz v. Webster

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• “Physicians cannot escape liability simply by refusing to verify underlying facts regarding the potential need for treatment.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Physicians cannot 4 Lacy’s experts also say that Miller should have performed tests to detect possible infection (the probe-to-bone test and a culture-and-sensitivity test
• “The problem with Dr. Webster’s inaction, then, is not that he chose the wrong side in a medical debate. He ignored his own opinion, undisputed in this record, that within two years of 2003 Ortiz required either further evaluation of his vision acuity or surgery.”
• pterygia causing vision distortions and necessitating corrective surgery

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Arnett v. Webster
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-12· cited 2,079×
• Leonard DeWitt v. Corizon, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-07-25· cited 117×
• Joseph Conley v. Kimberly Birch
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-08-06· cited 82×
• Gaston v. Ghosh
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-12-20· cited 15×
• Goodvine v. Ankarlo
  W.D. Wisconsin· 2014-03-31· cited 9×
• Smego v. Payne
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-03-21· cited 7×
• Rones v. Schrubbe
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-12-09

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Grieveson v. Anderson
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-08-18· cited 1,215×
• Berry v. Peterman
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-05· cited 872×
• Gayton v. McCoy
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-01-28· cited 786×
• Roe v. Elyea
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-28· cited 567×
• McGowan v. Hulick
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-07-20· cited 524×
• Armond Norfleet v. Thomas Webster and Alejandro Hadded
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-03-03· cited 404×
• Mid-State Fertilizer Co., Lasley Kimmel, and Maxine Kimmel v. Exchange National Bank of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-06-19· cited 393×
• Duckworth v. Ahmad
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-07-14· cited 356×
• Peate, Joey A. v. McCann, Steve
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-06-25· cited 188×
• Leavitt v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2011-06-29· cited 156×
• Raymond Garvin v. David Armstrong, Dr. John H. Oberhelman, and Flora Pinnell
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-01-12· cited 96×
• Steven Steele v. Han Chul Choi
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-05-30· cited 84×
• Clifford Jones v. Randall Simek
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-09-20· cited 84×
• Richard Foelker v. Outagamie County
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-01-07· cited 82×
• ESTATE OF
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-08-12· cited 30×
• Ortiz v. Bezy
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-06-13· cited 3×