On the two causes of action submitted to it, the first for conscious pain and suffering occasioned by the alleged malpractice of a physician in defendant's employ, and the second for wrongful death, the jury found for plaintiff. As to the first, it found plaintiff entitled to damages in the sum of $150,000; in the second, the jury made no award. Plaintiff's son, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University, was a patient in the Bellevue Psychiatric Ward during the fall...
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