Incidentally, recently had an inmate who worked off-site at an animal shelter return with a ‘cat scratch’ from as feral cat. The report was ‘you might want to take a look before the person goes to work’. Clearly a cat bite on evaluation that was starting to ‘go south’ – no work, intensive (though not IV) antibiotics and symptomatic care brought it under control. Moral – beware of ‘under reporting’.

What would you say is the liability situation if the iinmate is assessed – misrepresents the HPI and has a bad outcome – assuming that there is a good evaluatioin / documentation?