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• concluding that missing some doses of medicine was not a constitutional violation without showing of serious harm
• holding that “deliberate indifference is an onerous standard for the plaintiff, and forgetting doses of medicine, however incompetent, is not enough to meet it here”
• holding that deliberate indifference not shown where no evidence that any individual defendant failed to administer medication, but rather that officers were collectively were responsible for administering it.
• noting that a minor ailment may evolve into a serious medical need where the prisoner received inadequate treatment for “almost a month”
• noting that a minor ailment may evolve into a serious medical need where the prisoner received inadequate treatment for “almost a month”
• observing that is nonmedical personnel consciously choose to disregard a nurse or doctor’s directions in the face of medical risks, they may well exhibit deliberate indifference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).