· 7/10/1997
John A. Logan v. Harold Clarke John I. Cherry, Jr., Dr. And Dr. Schroenrock
Citations
- 119 F.3d 647
- 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 17221
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that prison doctors were not deliberately indifferent, even though they did not act as quickly as hindsight perhaps suggested that they should have
- concluding that the defendants’ efforts “while perhaps not as extensive as those a private health- care provider might have taken, did not reflect deliberate indifference to [the plaintiff’s] medical needs”
- concluding doctors’ efforts, which the prisoner was unable or refused to follow, were not deliberately indifferent
- concluding that “substantial back pain” is a serious medical need
- holding that “substantial back pain” is a serious medical need
- finding no deliberate indifference when the doctors’ efforts to treat a prisoner “were impeded by [the prisoner’s] apparent inability or refusal to follow their instructions”
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Judges: Arnold, Henley, Wollman
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