Estate of Wilbert Lee Henson v. Wichita Cou

I respectfully dissent. In holding that Nurse Krajca did not act with deliberate indifference, the majority opinion errs in two ways. First, the majority’s analysis disregards evidence in the record from which a reasonable jury could find that Nurse Krajca’s decision not to treat one of Henson’s serious medical needs, his dangerously high blood pressure, constituted deliberate indifference. Second, the majority’s reasoning is inconsistent with that of previous cases from our circuit, in which we have held that conduct less egregious than that of Nurse Krajca could give rise to an inference of…