John Adams M.D. v. Mark Sietsema

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE VENTERS

Appellee, Mark Sietsema, brought this medical malpractice action alleging Appellants John Adams, M.D., and Elizabeth Walkup,' A.R.N.P., were negligent in treating, or more accurately, in failing to treat, his illness while he was an inmate in the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC), thereby causing him to unnecessarily endure days of pain and suffering. Appellee primarily asserts that Adams, as medical director for HCDC, was inattentive to inmate medical needs, and that , he failed to adequately instruct the jail’s medical staff how to handle patients…