Lynne Stockberger, Both Personally and as the Representative of Maurice Stockberger, Deceased v. United States

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in this suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the United States. Maurice Stockberger, an employee of the federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, was an insulin-dependent diabetic and known to be such by his coworkers— many of whom, indeed, were medical workers. He had hypoglycemic episodes (episodes in which his blood sugar would fall to dangerously low levels), observed by and known to be such by them, in which he would exhibit personality changes, becoming hostile, suspicious, unresponsive, agitated — and…