Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff first saw the defendant proctologist in 1967. On December 7, 1972, after the plaintiff's internist found a polyp on his colon, the defendant performed a sigmoidoscopy and removed the polyp by fulguration. Since the plaintiff's mother died of colon cancer, and because a patient who has once had a polyp is apt to develop polyps in the future, the defendant undertook a course of treatment which involved annual...
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