Moricky v. Beth Israel Medical Center

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Moricky v. Beth Israel Medical Center

198 A.D.2d 33, 604 N.Y.S.2d 721, 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10281

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided November 4, 1993·Published·Cited by 1 cases

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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered on or about September 23, 1992, which granted the motion of defendants Manhattan Medical Group, P.C., and Zeki Uygur, M.D., to dismiss the third cause of action for battery on the ground that it fails to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The allegation that the physician performed the laminectomy at a level of the thoracic spine different from that consented to by the patient sets forth a cause of action for medical malpractice, not one for battery. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Wallach, JJ.

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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered on or about September 23, 1992, which granted the motion of defendants Manhattan Medical Group, P.C., and Zeki Uygur, M.D., to dismiss the third cause of action for battery on the ground that it fails to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The allegation that the physician performed the laminectomy at a level of the thoracic spine different from that consented to by the patient sets forth a cause of action for medical malpractice, not one for battery. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Wallach, JJ.

Moricky v. Beth Israel Medical Center, 198 A.D.2d 33, 604 N.Y.S.2d 721, 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10281 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1993).

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