HAMMER v. MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL

(8841), (8851)

25 Conn. App. 702 (1991)

SEYMOUR HAMMER v. MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ET AL.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decision released September 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Scully and John P. Rogers, with whom, on the brief, were John D. Liberator, Louis B. Blumenfeld and Joseph A. LaBella, for the appellants (named defendant et al.).

Wesley W. Horton, with whom were William R. Moller, Louis W. Flynn, Jr., and, on the brief, Susan M. Cormier, for the appellee (plaintiff).

DUPONT, C. J., SPALLONE and HEIMAN, JS.


DUPONT, C. J.

The defendants, Mount Sinai Hospital (hospital) and Douglas Whittemore, a physician employed by the hospital,1 appeal from a judgment rendered on a general verdict in favor of the plaintiff in this malpractice action.

On August 18, 1981, the plaintiff, a podiatrist, entered the hospital for treatment of a duodenal ulcer. The plaintiff also suffered from pancreatitis, a related condition, the symptoms of which made...

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