What is the test for a medical malpractice claim involving defendants' choices between alternative treatment options?

In order to prevail on a claim involving defendants' choices between alternative courses of treatment, a prisoner must show that the chosen treatment "was medically unacceptable under the circumstances" and was chosen "in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to plaintiff's health." Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d at 332. In other words, so long as a defendant decides on a medically acceptable course of treatment, his actions will not be considered deliberately indifferent even if an alternative course of treatment was available. Id.