RUIZ v. LENOX HILL HOSP.

2794, 160377/15.

146 A.D.3d 605 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 00399

45 N.Y.S.3d 427

CARLOS E. RUIZ, M.D., Ph.D, Respondent-Appellant, v. LENOX HILL HOSPITAL et al., Appellants-Respondents.

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

Decided January 19, 2017.


Plaintiff alleges that, as soon as he took over as Chair of defendant Lenox Hill Hospital's Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Scheinerman began signing medical procedure reports for procedures which he had neither performed nor witnessed, contrary to the usual practice of having the performing physicians sign those reports. Plaintiff also alleges that, contrary to accepted postoperative protocol that the lead surgeon report the results of a surgical procedure...

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