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HIMBER v. PFIZER LABS.

82 A.D.2d 776 (1981)

Sylvia Himber, as Administratrix of The Estate of Benjamin Himber, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. Pfizer Laboratories, Defendant, and Heskel M. Haddad, Appellant

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

June 25, 1981

Defendant Haddad, an ophthalmologist, treated the decedent, who had been complaining of a "floater" in his eye, on only one occasion — August 21, 1975, and, after taking a history and making a diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, prescribed that the decedent take eight Bufferin tablets a day. The decedent had been a diabetic since 1952 and for 16 years, until 1975, had been taking Diabinese. He took the recommended dosage of...

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