Thompson

Thompson v. Worch

Good Law
6 F. App'x 614
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMarch 13, 2001No. 99-35542; D.C. No. CV-97-00725-MACalifornia422 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff Terry Earl Harvey Thompson brought this § 1983 action, claiming that Defendants acted with deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs while he was a pretrial detainee, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 1 *616 The district court granted summary judgment for Defendants, and we affirm.

Nurse Stone saw Plaintiff when the transport officers brought him to a Deschutes County, Oregon, correctional facility. Again taking Plaintiffs allegations as true, Stone noticed that Plaintiff might need medication. She then called the physicians listed on the intake form, instead of calling Plaintiffs Florida doctor. She placed Plaintiff on a list that allowed him to receive ibuprofen on request. Even if Stone knew that Plaintiff had taken more potent pain-killers in the past, she followed the facility’s policy requiring her to confirm an inmate’s medical history with a doctor, and she followed the facility’s policy when she gave him ibuprofen. It is undisputed that Stone conferred with the facility’s physician, who approved her treatment for Plaintiff. At most, Stone was negligent in not calling Plaintiffs Florida doctor and in not recognizing early…

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