The following excerpt is from Salinas v. Montgomery, Case No.: 3:19-cv-0744-AJB-RBB (S.D. Cal. 2019):
"Because society does not expect that prisoners will have unqualified access to health care, deliberate indifference to medical needs amounts to an Eighth Amendment violation only if those needs are 'serious.'" Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 9 (1992), citing Estelle, 429 U.S. at 103-104. "A 'serious' medical need exists if the failure to treat
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