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$167,500 Awarded For Failure To Treat Fatal Colon Cancer in California Prisoner

In 1994, a California State prisoner had noticed some weight loss and lower
abdominal pain then later that year intermittent rectal bleeding. An
internist initially prescribed antibiotics and later a barium enema was
performed by a radiologist. The internist performed a colonoscopy, which
he interpreted as showing a mass in ...

 

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