Carrol Richard Olson v. Gary Stotts, Secretary of Corrections David R. McKune Warden Joan Finney, Governor the State of Kansas

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• holding prison officials were not deliberately indifferent in waiting eighteen months before providing plaintiff with a specialist and surgery when plaintiff received different, but appropriate, medical treatment prior to surgery
• holding prison officials were not deliberately indifferent in waiting eighteen months before providing plaintiff with a specialist and surgery when plaintiff received different, but appropriate, medical treatment prior to surgery
• stating that a “[d]elay in medical care can only constitute an Eighth Amendment violation if there has been deliberate indifference which results in substantial harm.”
• noting that a differ ence of medical opinion between plaintiff and prison doctor “does not support a claim of cruel and unusual punishment”
• stating that differences of medical opinion do not violate a prisoner’s constitutional rights
• holding disagreement with doctor’s professional judgment did not state Eighth Amendment claim

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