Arnett v. Webster

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a doctor was not liable for prison staff’s delay in dispensing prescribed medication
• concluding that a doctor was not liable for prison staff’s delay in dispensing prescribed medication
• ruling that a “prison physician cannot simply continue with a course of treatment that he knows is ineffective”
• holding that non-medical officials are entitled to “rely on the expertise of medical personnel” and “will generally be justified in believing that the prisoner is in capable hands.”
• holding that “if a prisoner is under the care of medical experts, a non-medical prison official will generally be justified in believing that the prisoner is in capable hands”
• recognizing non-medical prison staff \will generally be justified in believing that the prisoner is in capable hands\ when relying on expertise of medical personnel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).