The following excerpt is from Butler v. Kelso, Civil No. 11cv02684 CAB(RBB) (S.D. Cal. 2013):
Deliberate indifference may be adequately alleged where a physician pursues a treatment plan that was not "the product of sound medical judgment." Chance v. Armstrong, 143 F.3d 698, 703-04 (2th Cir. 1998). In Chance, the plaintiff 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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