Richard Smego v. Jacqueline Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the dentist’s promise to treat teeth, and then delay in providing such treatment, could constitute deliberate indifference
• noting that the standards under the Eighth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment are “functionally indistinguishable” in the context of claims about inadequate medical care
• “[E]ven non-medical personnel cannot stand by and ignore a detainee’s complaints of serious medical issues.”
• \[E]ven non-medical personnel cannot stand by and ignore a detainee's complaints of serious medical issues.\
• “Even personnel who are not doctors are not permitted simply to ignore a detainee’s plight, nor can they deliberately obstruct or delay a patient from receiving necessary treatment.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).