Can a physician be found to have deliberately pursued a treatment plan that was not based on sound medical judgment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Goolsby v. Ridge, Civil No. 09cv02654 WQH (RBB) (S.D. Cal. 2011):

But deliberate indifference may be adequately alleged where a physician pursues a treatment plan that was not "derive[d] from sound medical judgment." Chance v. Armstrong, 143 F.3d 698, 703-04 (2d Cir. 1998). In Chance, the plaintiff had alleged that two doctors recommended a course of treatment, "not on the basis of their medical views, but because of monetary incentives." Id. at 704. This was sufficient to allege deliberate indifference.

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