Willie Smart v. Romeo Villar, Chief Medical Officer, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas

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• noting that a mere disagreement between an inmate and prison official over the type or extent of the inmate’s medical care does not state a cause of action under the Eighth Amendment
• explaining that a difference in opinion as to treatment or diagnosis between a prisoner and medical staff alone could not give rise to a cause of action for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs

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