LEWIS v. YONKERS GEN. HOSP.


174 A.D.2d 611 (1991)

James Lewis, Plaintiff, v. Yonkers General Hospital, Respondent, et al., Defendants, and Leslie Cheifetz, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 10, 1991


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff allegedly lost the vision in his right eye as a result of negligent dental and medical treatment he received in November of 1986. The appellant Dr. Leslie Cheifetz, an oral surgeon, removed the plaintiff's severely decayed maxillary right first molar. The plaintiff had some swelling on the side of his nose and under his right eye at the time. When the swelling worsened the following day, Dr. Cheifetz referred...

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