Opinion ID: 2981142
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Heading: Defendant Meyer

Text: When Broyles complained for the third time about his vision impairment on August 26, Broyles asserts Meyer acted with deliberate indifference by failing to send him to health care that same day. Broyles alleges that “medical policy and procedure” required a prisoner be referred to a medical service provider if a third complaint is made without improvement. He alleges that, at the time Meyer failed to schedule an examination of Broyles, she was aware of his prior two complaints, the fact that he was examined on August 24, and the fact that the nurse had told him to contact health care if his condition worsened or failed to improve. The facts Broyles alleges as to Meyer’s knowledge also include the classification of his condition as non-emergent and the determination of an examining nurse that Broyles’s eye looked normal with no abnormal findings. Broyles’s allegations are similar to those made by the plaintiff in Clark v. Corrections Corporation of America: [the plaintiff] acknowledge[d] he received medical treatment, arguing instead that once prison officials knew that his jaw was broken (a fact unknown for several weeks due to misdiagnosis), they should have taken immediate steps to treat it. As a result of their delay, he alleges, he now has permanent nerve damage that can only be corrected by surgery. 98 F. App’x at 416. In Clark, this Court emphasized that it “is reluctant to second guess medical judgments where a prisoner has received some medical attention and the dispute concerns the adequacy of that treatment.” Id. (citing Westlake v. Lucas, 537 F.2d 857, 860 n.5 (1976)). As with No. 10-1447 Broyles v. Correctional Medical Services, et al. Hamilton, Broyles’s complaint contains no allegations that Meyer specifically knew Broyles faced a substantial risk of serious harm and disregarded that substantial risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it as is required to state an Eighth Amendment claim. See Farmer, 511 U.S. at 847.