Evance v. Trumann Health Servs., LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a doctor was not qualified to opine on damage to plaintiff's heart because he was not a cardiologist
• noting that a “heart attack is a life-endangering event”
• reversing a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant nurse who postponed treatment of inmate experiencing chest and arm pain despite knowing inmate, who eventually had a heart attack, was being treated for chronic high blood pressure
• doctor “cannot be thought to have exhibited deliberate indifference” when he “promptly summoned an ambulance to take [inmate] to the nearest hospital emergency room.”
• nurse's decision to do nothing could show deliberate indifference when an officer told the nurse that the prisoner, who had chronic high blood pressure, was experiencing acute pain in chest and left arm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).