132241P.pdf   03/25/2014  Broderick Fourte  v.  Faulkner County, Arkansas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2241
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In an action where plaintiff 
   alleged that delay in treatment of his high blood pressure led to his 
   partial blindness, the defendant doctor and nurse who saw plaintiff at 
   admission were entitled to qualified immunity on his claim that they 
   deliberately disregarded his medical needs by failing to conduct a medical 
   screening at intake as there was insufficient evidence to show that 
   plaintiff suffered a serious medical condition at that time; the County 
   was also entitled to qualified immunity on this claim as the doctor and 
   nurse were the only professionals alleged to have checked plaintiff's 
   condition; with respect to plaintiff's claim that defendants were 
   deliberately indifferent when they failed to prescribe medication after he 
   had several high blood pressure readings, plaintiff's evidence, at most, 
   showed medical malpractice and did not rise to the level of deliberate 
   indifference; similarly, a delay in writing a second prescription for 
   medication was, at most, negligence rather than deliberate indifference; 
   claims with respect to the County's prescription-delivery system were not 
   inextricably intertwined with the doctor's and nurse's treatment of 
   plaintiff and the court lacked jurisdiction over the issue in this 
   interlocutory appeal of qualified immunity issues.