Tonsing v. United States

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• holding that alternative medical plan incorporating weaker pain medication to treat inmate was “mere disagreement over the proper treatment”
• holding that alternative medical plan incorporating weaker pain medication to treat inmate was “mere disagreement over the proper treatment”
• holding that alternative medical plan incorporating weaker pain medication to treat inmate was “mere disagreement over the proper treatment”
• holding that alternative medical plan incorporating weaker pain medication to treat inmate was “mere disagreement over the proper treatment”
• holding sickle cell crisis to be a “objectively serious medical condition” for the purposes of the Eighth Amendment
• concluding defendants’ decision to prescribe Tylenol or Motrin to manage prisoner’s pain and to administer Demerol or morphine only when necessary did not constitute deliberate indifference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).