The following excerpt is from Bjerkhoel v. Scharffenberg, CASE NO. 1:16-cv-00507-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2016):
The correct inquiry is whether "the course of treatment the doctors chose was medically acceptable under the circumstances and [whether] the defendants chose this course in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to plaintiff's health." Snow, 681 F.3d at 987 (quoting Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir. 1996) (internal quotation marks omitted). Where a plaintiff alleges a defendant denied medical treatment because
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