Howard A. Crooks v. Crispus C. Nix, Warden, Department of Corrections, Director, Iowa City Medical Center

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• holding that prison supervisors may be held liable for “inadequate prison policies or medical supervision ... just as if they had refused to deliver [medical] services themselves”
• prison officials may not avoid liability merely by delegating responsibility for inmate care to an outside provider
• \Where a prisoner needs medical treatment prison officials are under a constitutional duty to see that it is furnished.\
• inmate's uncorroborated allegation of need for bone marrow transplant insufficient to support deliberate indifference claim
• plaintiff's uncorroborated statement that he needed bone marrow transplant insufficient to support claim of deliberate indifference to serious medical need for purposes of Eighth Amendment
• “Where a prisoner needs medical treatment prison officials are under a constitutional duty to see that it is furnished.” (citing Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 103 (1976))

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