GLADU v. CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE NICHOLAS A. GLADU, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) 2:17-cv-00504-JAW ) CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ORDER AFFIRMING IN PART AND REJECTING IN PART THE RECOMMENDED DECISION ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS The federal courts are not an appropriate forum for hypochondriacal inmates based on their symptoms alone to force prisons to seek out and obtain second medical opinions. At the same time, federal courts are not equipped without assistance from the medical profession to distinguish between the hypochondriac and the truly ill. To make…