POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for medical malpractice, governed, so far as relates to the appeals, by Illinois law. A jury awarded the plaintiff $1 million. Both parties appeal—the defendant arguing that it was entitled to judgment as a matter of law, the plaintiff arguing that he was entitled to a larger damages award. The plaintiff's appeal is academic on the view we take of the case.
Shirley Johnson, a woman in her fifties weighing 300 pounds...
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