On October 14, 1983 the plaintiff, a certified registered nurse-anesthetist at Harlem Hospital, was assigned to administer anesthesia to a patient who was to receive a routine, nonemergency, shoulder operation. Dr. Shearwood McClelland, then the acting chief of orthopedic surgery at the hospital, was the attending surgeon responsible for the patient. He and the plaintiff had not previously met.
While plaintiff was preparing her medications, Dr. Rudolf,
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