Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court acted properly in striking the ad damnum clause of the plaintiff's complaint pursuant to CPLR 3017 (c) on the basis that the plaintiff's claim against the defendant hospital sounded in medical malpractice rather than common-law negligence. The gravamen of the plaintiff's complaint is that the defendant hospital was negligent in failing to raise all of the side rails on the plaintiff's bed after she...
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