David G. Boretti v. Beverly A. Wiscomb, R.N., Wanda M. Baldwin, R.N.

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• holding that a nurse’s failure to dispense prescribed pain medicine was sufficient to state an Eighth Amendment claim, even where wound healed normally
• holding that “the fact that ... plaintiffs wound did not become infected and healed is not a bar to recovery” under a deliberate indifference theory
• holding that an inmate’s physical pain and mental anguish associated with the denial of adequate wound care and pain management constituted a serious medical need
• recognizing that “a prisoner who suffers pain needlessly when relief is readily available has a cause of action against those whose deliberate indifference is the cause of his suffering.”
• recognizing that “a prisoner who suffers pain needlessly when relief is readily available has a cause of action against those whose deliberate indifference is the cause of his suffering.”
• recognizing that “a prisoner who suffers pain needlessly when relief is readily available has a cause of action against those whose deliberate indifference is the cause of his suffering”

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