Opinion ID: 2284324
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Heading: Inadequate medical care.

Text: Vaughn's complaint alleges that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated by the lack of an adequate medical care facility. To the extent that his complaint mounts a general challenge to the quality of the medical facilities available in the Frio County jail, it is subject to dismissal for failing to allege specific deficiencies in the jail's health care system. Benson v. Cady, 761 F.2d 335, 341 (7th Cir.1985). To the extent that Vaughn's complaint mounts a challenge to the quality of any care he personally received, or that he was denied needed medical care, it is subject to dismissal for failure to allege that he suffered any damage or injury as a result of the act or omission. E.g., Cotton v. Hutto, 540 F.2d 412 (8th Cir.1976) (complaint alleging Eighth Amendment violation based on insufficient opportunity to discuss medical problems with prison doctor dismissed for failure to state that a particular prisoner was denied care on a particular occasion or was harmed thereby); Mitchell v. Hendricks, 431 F.Supp. 1295 (E.D.Pa.1977) (plaintiff must allege an injury from denial of medical care that results in undue suffering or permanent residual injury), and that the act or omission was the result of deliberate indifference on the part of prison officials. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104-05, 97 S.Ct. 285, 291, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976). Moreover, even deliberate indifference by prison officials need not violate the Eighth Amendment where the prisoner's medical condition is not sufficiently serious. Shabazz v. Barnauskas, 790 F.2d 1536, 1538 (11th Cir.1986) (development of pseudofolliculitis or shaving bumps from requirement by prison officials that prisoner shave not a sufficiently serious medical condition to constitute an Eighth Amendment violation). Thus, we conclude that Vaughn's general allegation [t]heri's [sic] not an adequate medical care facility for inmates to be treated by fails to meet the standard of specificity required of complaints stating a claim under § 1983 for inadequate medical treatment. [11]