Don Waldrop v. David C. Evans, Frank Fodor, M.D., T.G. Smith, M.D.

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• noting that prison inmate has Eighth Amendment right be free from deliberate indifference to serious psychiatric needs
• observing that “when a prison inmate has received medical care, courts hesitate to find an Eighth Amendment violation”
• finding that failure of a prison staff member to notify competent authorities regarding the inmate’s dangerous psychiatric state and self-harm may constitute deliberate indifference
• explaining that a “difference in medical opinion,” standing alone, does not amount to deliberate indifference
• explaining that “[g]rossly incompetent or inadequate” medical care may amount to deliberate indifference
• noting that “a simple difference in medical opinion” does not constitute deliberate indifference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).