Smith v. Mather Memorial Hospital

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Smith v. Mather Memorial Hospital

268 A.D.2d 518, 701 N.Y.S.2d 663, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 691

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedJanuary 24, 2000

StatusPublished

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Smith v. Mather Memorial Hospital, 268 A.D.2d 518, 701 N.Y.S.2d 663, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 691 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2000).

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—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the defendant Alan W. Studley appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), entered April 30, 1999, as denied those branches of his motion which were for summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, and fifth causes of action insofar as asserted against him.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The appellant Dr. Alan W. Studley failed to establish prima facie that he did not deviate from good and accepted medical practice in failing to diagnose and treat the decedent’s aortic aneurysm. The evidence submitted by the parties raises issues of fact as to whether the appellant’s failure to order a chest X-ray and to recommend follow-up care was a proximate cause of the decedent’s death (see, Henson v Winthrop Univ. Hosp., 249 AD2d 510; Montalbano v North Shore Univ. PIosp., 154 AD2d 579). Thus, the appellant was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, and fifth causes of action insofar as asserted against him. Thompson, J. P., S. Miller, Krausman, Florio and Schmidt, JJ., concur.

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—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death, the defendant Alan W. Studley appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), entered April 30, 1999, as denied those branches of his motion which were for summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, and fifth causes of action insofar as asserted against him.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The appellant Dr. Alan W. Studley failed to establish prima facie that he did not deviate from good and accepted medical practice in failing to diagnose and treat the decedent’s aortic aneurysm. The evidence submitted by the parties raises issues of fact as to whether the appellant’s failure to order a chest X-ray and to recommend follow-up care was a proximate cause of the decedent’s death (see, Henson v Winthrop Univ. Hosp., 249 AD2d 510; Montalbano v North Shore Univ. PIosp., 154 AD2d 579). Thus, the appellant was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, and fifth causes of action insofar as asserted against him. Thompson, J. P., S. Miller, Krausman, Florio and Schmidt, JJ., concur.

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268 A.D.2d 518, 701 N.Y.S.2d 663, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 691, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/smith-v-mather-memorial-hospital-nyappdiv-2000.

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