Wright v. Genovese

How courts have described this case

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

• “Disagreements over medications, diagnostic techniques, forms of treatment, the need for specialists, and the timing of their intervention implicate medical judgments and not the Eighth Amendment.”
• “[C]oncern about prescribing narcotic pain medication, on which inmates with possible substance abuse issues could become dependent, may inform a medical judgment about what drug to prescribe.”
• “differences in opinion between a doctor and an inmate patient as to the appropriate pain medication clearly do not support a claim that the doctor was deliberately indifferent to the inmate's “serious” medical needs”
• “Differences in opinions between a doctor and an inmate patient as to the appropriate pain medication clearly do not support a claim that the doctor was deliberately indifferent to the inmate’s ‘serious’ medical needs.”
• letter complaints to prison’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) were “insufficient to establish personal involvement” because the CMO “referred the matter to a subordinate for decision and did not personally make any medical decisions regarding the plaintiff”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).