COOPER v. EDINBERGH


75 A.D.2d 757 (1980)

Elizabeth Cooper, Respondent, v. Alfred Edinbergh, Appellant, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 13, 1980


The first cause states a claim of medical malpractice based upon an appendectomy performed on plaintiff by defendant-appellant surgeon in July, 1961. As appears by the hospital record dictated by defendant operating surgeon within days of the surgery, the "wound was closed using a few interrupted #0 surgaloy buried figure-of-eight wire sutures; continuous chromic #1 catgut on peritoneum catching the surgaloy wire sutures before they were tied; interrupted chromic #1 catgut...

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