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Abstract: 

Our regular review of important appellate decisions includes three cases: Scott v. Hinshaw (7th Cir.), in which a doctor and unit manager were both found to have provided adequate mental health care to a prisoner who had claimed that both had been deliberately indifferent to his mental health needs; Estate of Hurtado by and through Hurtado v. Smith, where the 10th Circuit found that prison’s physician had not disregarded risk in treating inmate for liver disease and who died from complications of a perineal abscess after surgery; in Stalley v. Cumbie (11th Cir.), a correctional officers’ decision to transport a limp and restrained prisoner to a nearby medical facility without letting the nurses perform any sort of medical assessment, including a pulse check, either on scene or en route, did not amount to deliberate indifference.

Keywords: Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Need

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