Sixth Circuit· 11/4/2010

Jones v. Muskegon County

Citations

625 F.3d 935
2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 23034
2010 WL 4352392

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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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Judges: Gilman, Cook, Oliver

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