What is the test for an Eighth Amendment claim involving alternative options between alternative courses of treatment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Govea v. Fox, No. 2:15-cv-2545 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2018):
In order to prevail on an Eighth Amendment claim involving choices between alternative courses of treatment, a prisoner-plaintiff must show that the course of treatment the doctors chose was medically unacceptable under the circumstances and that they chose this course in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to plaintiff's health. Toguchi, 391 F.3d at 1058; Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir. 1996).
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