8th Amendment Violation.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Damon Goodloe v. Kul Sood, et al.

Case No.: 18-1910

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and BARRETT and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: 8th Amendment Violation

Patients are often the best source of information about their medical condition. A physician's decision to persist with ineffective treatment and ignore a patient's repeated complaints of unresolved pain and other symptoms can give rise to liabilityor, at the very least, raise enough questions to warrant a jury trial. Damon Goodloe's case is a good example.

An inmate in the care of the Illinois Department of Corrections, Goodloe invoked 42 U.S.C. 1983 and alleged that his treating physician within the Hill Correctional Center responded to his repeated complaints of rectal bleeding and severe pain with a course of demonstrably ineffective treatment and undue delay in sending him to an outside specialist for evaluation. The discovery process revealed medical records and other documents corroborating many of these allegations. On the record before us, then...

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