Opinion ID: 869450
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Heading: August 5, 2007 Injury and Hospital Treatment

Text: In 2007, Plaintiff Harris was a state prisoner incarcerated at the Martin Correctional Institution (“MCI”) in Indiantown, Florida. On August 5, 2007, Harris injured his right eye while playing flag football at MCI. The MCI medical staff examined Harris’s eye and transported him to St. Mary’s Hospital (“St. Mary’s) for further examination and treatment. At St. Mary’s, Defendant Dr. Leder, a board-certified ophthalmologist, was the emergency, on-call doctor and examined Harris. Dr. Leder diagnosed a 2 Case: 12-12098 Date Filed: 05/24/2013 Page: 3 of 15 cataract in Harris’s right eye from trauma and “20/400” vision. Harris averred that “[d]uring this time [he] had no vision.” In the medical records, Dr. Leder noted that Harris already had a “dislocated lens” in his left eye due to previous trauma, which the records described in another place as “(L) eye had retinal detach [and] has no vision” in left eye. Harris does not dispute that he had a prior retinal detachment in his left eye and has no vision in that eye. Dr. Leder advised Harris to return for a follow-up evaluation within two to three days and then to undergo cataract surgery on his right eye.