Is there any case law in which a medical director or medical director has been found guilty of deliberate indifference?
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The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Krpan, Case No. 1:14-cv-01380-AWI-JDP (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Perhaps anticipating this conclusion, plaintiff argues that "when a prisoner's treating physicians [recommend] a course of action, and officials (even higher level medical administrators) [ignore] that recommendation, the result is not a mere disagreement over medical treatment but[] can be deliberate indifference." ECF No. 63 at 4 (citing Johnson v. Wright, 412 F.3d 398, 406 (2d Cir. 2005)). While plaintiff's legal proposition may be true, it does not
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