CDCR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN GRESCHNER, No. 2:15-cv-1663 MCE AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION, et al., Defendants. 17 Plaintiff is a former California state prisoner currently incarcerated in a Colorado state prison. Plaintiff proceeds pro se and in forma pauperis with this civil rights action challenging his medical care at High Desert State Prison (HDSP), under the authority of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). This action proceeds against Banner Lassen Medical Center and two of its physicians, Dr. Dale Syverson and Dr. Arthur Schwartz, and CDCR physician Dr. Jeffrey Rolfing. Plaintiff claims (1) that when he obtained hernia repair surgery, the Banner defendants were negligent in promoting and implanting a defective Davol- Bard hernia plug and mesh into his abdomen; and (2) that, upon his return to HDSP, defendant Rolfing was deliberately indifferent in…