In Re William Charles Webb v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• discussing how a person can manifest deliberate indifference by intentionally delaying or denying access to medical care “or intentionally interfering with treatment or medication that has been prescribed.” (emphasis in original)
• an objectively serious medical need is one that has been diagnosed by a physician as requiring treatment
• a medical need is objectively serious if it has been “diagnosed by a physician as requiring treatment”
• “constitutional liability may follow [w]hen an official denies a person treatment that has been ordered or medication that has been prescribed” (quotations omitted)
• a “prisoner alleging a delay in treatment must present verifying medical evidence that the prison officials ignored an acute or escalating situation or that these delays adversely affected his prognosis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).