Kernan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WAYDE HOLLIS HARRIS, No. 2:17-cv-0680 TLN KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER S. KERNAN, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding pro se, in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff requests that the court appoint counsel. In screening plaintiff’s pleading, the undersigned found that plaintiff may be able to demonstrate that Dr. Kuersten was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical needs by allegedly interfering with numerous recommendations of specialists concerning the diagnosis and treatment of plaintiff’s chronic GI symptoms, suffered over more than four years, which remain undiagnosed, by denying plaintiff’s primary care physicians’ requests based on recommendations by medical specialists, as well as by suggesting physical therapy for plaintiff’s tendon of his right thumb where the orthopedic specialist stated that “further nonoperative treatment would not be effective.” …