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SUBMITTED NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Maurice Gipson, an inmate of a federal prison in Indiana, brought suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-80, complaining about complications of neck surgery because the prison’s medical staff had disregarded a medical directive that he be told to stop taking blood thinners at least five days before the operation. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the government because Gipson had failed to submit a medical expert’s opinion that in disregarding the directive the prison’s medical staff had violated the applicable standard of care.

 
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