Shane Holloway v. Delaware County S

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inmates are “not entitled to receive unqualified access to healthcare”
• recognizing that nurses generally may rely on physician’s instructions
• rejecting prisoner’s argument that prison doctor’s choice of different pain medication than prisoner’s prior doctor demonstrated deliberate indifference
• affirming summary judgment for doctor where inmate provided no evidence that doctor knew medication would be insufficient to alleviate symptoms or that failure to prescribe other medication was departure of professional standards
• nurse is entitled to rely on a doctor’s instruction unless it’s obvious that the doctor’s advice will harm the prisoner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).