WHITE v. PROSPECT HEIGHTS HOSP.


278 A.D. 789 (1951)

Sidney White, Appellant, v. Prospect Heights Hospital, Respondent

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

April 23, 1951.


The appellant was a paying patient in respondent hospital, which had been incorporated for charitable purposes. The surgery for which he had been admitted was successfully performed by his private surgeon. The jury could have found, upon the evidence adduced, that following the operation it became necessary to catheterize appellant; that he was catheterized several times, the first time by an orderly in the employ of the hospital who was not a medical graduate; that the catheterization...

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