POSNER, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, an inmate of an Illinois prison, has sued, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 — the ubiquitous federal constitutional tort statute — a nurse practitioner and a correctional counselor both of whom work at the prison. He accuses them of having been deliberately indifferent to his serious medical condition — hypertension (high blood pressure) — for which he was not r…
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