211954P.pdf   06/30/2022  Michael Hancock  v.  Jim Arnott
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-1954
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Erickson, 
   Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging jail officials were 
   deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's serious medical needs, the 
   district court granted defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of 
   deliberate indifference to medical needs as plaintiff failed to show his 
   condition - a non-emergent, reducible hernia - was a serious medical need 
   requiring immediate surgery; the decision to delay surgery until the 
   hernia was non-reducible was not a denial of medical care; plaintiff 
   failed to produce any evidence that the delay in providing surgery caused 
   him excessive risk or changed his prognosis; assuming the condition was a 
   serious medical need, plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the decision to 
   delay surgery constituted deliberate indifference; plaintiff regularly saw 
   medical staff and made only intermittent claims of pain; the medical 
   staff's objective observations did not show that he was in severe pain or 
   forced to limit his activities; as such, the defendants did not disregard 
   a known risk to plaintiff's health.