The following excerpt is from Gilmore v. Kings Cnty. Jail, CASE NO. 1:10-cv-01518-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
has adequately alleged a serious medical need and satisfied the first prerequisite to an Eighth Amendment claim. See Hunt, 865 F.2d at 200 (finding that prisoner's bleeding gums, breaking teeth and his inability to eat properly were sufficiently serious to satisfy the Eighth Amendment); see also Doty v. County of Lassen, 37 F.3d 540, 546 (9th Cir. 1994) ("serious" medical conditions are those a reasonable doctor would think worthy of comment, those which significantly affect the prisoner's daily activities, and those which are chronic and accompanied by substantial pain).
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