The article was about Sepsis. People in the regular world are misdiagnosed regularly with Sepsis or it's discovered to

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far along for regular treatment. Ones it's discovered, it can't be gotten in control.
A prisoner's situation is due to their own actions in life. They don't enjoy the best of anything. I am just stating a counter fact, that prisoners constantly scam and connive to use medical treatment for a change in their daily scene. You can't expect staff to treat every medical request as urgent when their own experience is that it is usually not.