Although a medical malpractice action must ordinarily be brought within 2½ years after the act, omission or failure complained of, the time for commencing an action based on the discovery of a "foreign object" does not begin to run until the date the object was, or should have been, discovered (CPLR 214-a). This appeal requires us to consider whether a "fixation device" originally implanted in...
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