Denial of medical care to an inmate is cruel and unusual punishment that is expressly prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In a seminal case Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner can successfully state a claim for cruel and unusual punishment based on inadequate medical care by alleging an objectively serious medical condition and a prison official's deliberate indifference to that condition. Following this landmark decision, many prisoners including some of our clients have successfully pursued an Eighth Amendment claim alleging correctional officers' reckless disregard of prisoners' objectively serious and progressively worsening medical complaints. However, one aspect of prison medical care that has not been addressed much in judicial decisions is prisoners' rights to their own health information and rights in medical decision-making.