Legal Opinion
Gregory Wilson v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 2019No. 18-2499PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
*517 Gregory Wilson was an inmate at Illinois's Stateville Correctional Center. This case concerns the medical care he received there for an inguinal hernia. The hernia was first spotted in the 1990s, but then it apparently subsided. In 2011, it reappeared in the identical spot. Wilson, by that time at Stateville, says that the 2011 recurrence was extremely painful. He complains that the prison's medical officers refused to listen to him and delayed giving him hernia-repair surgery, instead forcing him repeatedly and fruitlessly to push the herniated tissue back into his…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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