Jones v. Muskegon County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a doctor had not shown deliberate indifference by misdiagnosing a prisoner’s medical condition when the diagnosis accounted for some, but not all, of the prisoner’s symptoms
• holding that a jury cannot reasonably infer from five incidents approval of a widespread custom of ignoring patient requests
• holding that a doctor who misdiagnosed an inmate’s cancer as constipation was not deliberately indifferent in part because some of the inmate’s symptoms were consistent with constipation
• holding that treating an inmate, who turned out to have cancer, for constipation when some symptoms but not others were consistent with constipation amounted to negligence, not deliberate indifference
• holding that treating an inmate, who turned out to have cancer, for constipation when some symptoms but not others were consistent with constipation amounted to negligence, not deliberate indifference
• holding that doctor’s negligence in diagnosing a medical condition did not constitute deliberate indifference

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