WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Michael McGowan had an upper molar extracted in January 2007 while he was imprisoned at Illinois's Menard Correctional Center, but the extraction site did not heal and became infected. He was still suffering from complications in November 2007, when a specialist performed the second of two surgeries to close the hole left by the extraction. McGowan then brought this pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Illinois law, claiming that the...
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