Broderick Fourte v. Faulkner County, Arkansas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that disagreement with a certain course of treatment does not create a constitutional violation
• explaining that deliberate-indifference claim requires showing that defendants actually knew of, but deliberately disregarded, an objectively serious medical need
• concluding that “[a]lthough the prison doctors may not have proceeded as quickly as hindsight perhaps allows us to think they should have, their actions were not deliberately indifferent. The doctors made efforts to cure the problem in a reasonable and sensible manner.”
• showing that another doctor might have ordered different treatment or tests did not equate to showing deliberate indifference, as physicians are entitled to exercise their own medical judgment
• explaining that deliberate indifference requires “more than even gross negligence”
• “At best, [the evidence] show[s] that [medical officials] should have known they were committing malpractice — but medical malpractice is not deliberate indifference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).