"[A] reasonable jury can infer a defendant's subjective deliberate indifference based upon evidence that the defendant ignored a request for treatment, substantially departed from accepted professional standards[,] . . . persisted in an ineffective course of treatment, or inexplicably delayed treatment." Williams v. Ghosh, No. 10 C 162, 2017 WL 3780315, at *7 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 31, 2017) (citing Petties v. Carter, 836 F.3d 722, 729-31 (7th Cir. 2016) (en banc)). "Showing mere negligence" on the part of an official "is not enough."
"A reasonable jury can infer a defendant's subjective deliberate indifference based upon evidence that the defendant ignored a request for treatment, substantially departed from accepted professional standards, failed to follow advice from a specialist, persisted in an ineffective course of treatment, or inexplicably delayed treatment." Williams v. Ghosh, No. 10 C 162, 2017 WL 3780315, at *6-7 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 31, 2017) (citing Petties, 836 F.3d at 729-31). Here, Quinn has presented evidence that he had requested a number of appointments with Obaisi for his condition after March 2015, when Obaisi had determined that Quinn's anal fissure had healed, that no medical staff saw Quinn until the next time Obaisi saw him in late July 2015, after his hunger strike, and that health staff told Quinn that Obaisi threw away the interim appointment requests.