Can a prisoner claim deliberate indifference to medical needs based on a difference of medical opinion?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Green v. Church, No. 2:18-cv-1931 WBS KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
1. Of course, in an appropriate case, a prisoner may state a claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs based on a difference of medical opinion. To do so, the prisoner must show that "the course of treatment the doctors chose was medically unacceptable under the circumstances," and that they "chose this course in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to [the prisoner's] health." Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir. 1996) (citations omitted).
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