Applying 8th Amendment standards to claim of failure to provide medical attention to pretrial detainee; three guards who were aware of risk of serious harm and chose to disregard that risk would be liable for failing to provide treatment for plaintiff’s priapism (a result of taking a pill from another prisoner) for three days, which led to a need for surgery and probably impotence for life; qualified immunity denied.
Applying objective standard for failure to provide medical attention to pretrial detainee, under Kingsley and Gordon v. Co. of Orange, 888 F.3d 1118 (9th Cir. 2018), to review of incident and summary judgment motion decided prior to Gordon.
Medical professional who knows that his role is to serve as gatekeeper for other medical personnel capable of treating a condition may be liable for deliberate indifference for denying access to medical care; nurse’s knowledge that plaintiff was “dazed and confused” and unable to remember what kind of work he did was sufficient to trigger nurse’s duty as gatekeeper; nurse was not deliberately indifferent because he referred plaintiff to a physician’s assistant; nurse’s failure to inform doctor of how long plaintiff had been in custody, which was allegedly too long to be suffering from withd
Detainee died from alcohol withdrawal while in jail; condition constituted a serious medical need, jury could find that officials who failed to follow doctor’s discharge instructions and had seen inmate’s condition worsen had culpable state of mind to satisfy subjective component of liability for deliberate indifference; law was clearly established, thus officials not entitled to qualified immunity; “[W]hen prison officials prevent an inmate from receiving treatment or deny him access to medical personnel capable of evaluating the need for treatment, they may be liable for deliberate indiff