Legal Opinion
Eugene Devbrow v. Eke Kalu
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 1, 2013No. 12-2467PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
This case arises out of a delay by prison medical staff in ordering a prostate biopsy for a prisoner. Eugene Devbrow entered the Indiana prison system in 2000. During the intake process, he told the medical staff that he had prostate problems and would need to be tested for prostate cancer within two to four years. In February 2004 a prison doctor ordered a PSA test (for “prostate-specific antigen”), which revealed an elevated PSA, but the medical staff did not order a prostate biopsy until April 2005. In a follow-up biopsy six months later, Devbrow was diagnosed with…
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