DUCKWORTH v. AHMAD

No. 07-3618.

532 F.3d 675 (2008)

Gregg L. DUCKWORTH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Maher K. AHMAD and Francis Kayira, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Kilpatrick (argued), Husch Blackwell Sanders, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James J. Hagle (argued), Frederick & Hagle, Urbana, IL, Karen L. Kendall, Craig L. Unrath (argued), Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Gregg L. Duckworth is an inmate in the Centralia Correctional Facility in southern Illinois and, sadly, in early 2001 a doctor diagnosed him with bladder cancer. This diagnosis came after sixteen months of treatment for gross hematuria—a condition that involves the emission of blood in the urine—by two different doctors, Maher K. Ahmad and Francis Kayira. After his diagnosis, Duckworth...

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