Judgment reversed, on the law, and complaint dismissed.
This medical malpractice action brought on behalf of the infant plaintiff, Ellie Kenigsberg, stems from her parents' dissatisfaction with the conspicuous scarring left on Ellie's thigh as a result of a skin graft taken from that site. The skin graft was made necessary by a third-degree burn to the chest that the then 15-month-old infant sustained in January 1980 after accidentally spilling a cup of hot water...
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