EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Danny Richards underwent three surgeries necessitated by ulcerative colitis. His colon has been removed and an ileo-anal pouch constructed. Richards, a prisoner of Indiana, had complained since January 2008 about abdominal pain and blood in his stool; physicians in the prison system assured him that he was fine, but they were wrong. In October 2008 they sent him to a hospital, where specialists diagnosed ulcerative colitis. By then it was...
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