FLOWERS v. SOUTHAMPTON HOSP.


215 A.D.2d 723 (1995)

627 N.Y.S.2d 81

Mary A. Flowers et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Southampton Hospital, Defendant, and Martin J. Van Dyne, Appellant-Respondent

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

May 30, 1995


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

Contrary to the contention of the defendant doctor, there was sufficient evidence from which a jury could rationally conclude that he departed from good and accepted medical practice by failing to properly read a January 1987 mammogram and by failing to identify a suspicious lesion. These failures precluded the plaintiff Mary Flowers from opting for a lumpectomy with radiation therapy when the...

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