McKNIGHT v. LAGUARDIA HOSPITAL


263 A.D.2d 500 (1999)

693 N.Y.S.2d 620

JANICE McKNIGHT et al., Appellants, v. LAGUARDIA HOSPITAL et al., Defendants, and SCOTT BLINKOFF et al., Respondents.

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

Decided July 19, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The decedent, William McKnight, was diagnosed in April 1994 with leiomyosarcoma, a rare gastric tumor that comprises less than one percent of all gastric cancers in the United States. The plaintiffs' action, inter alia, to recover damages for medical malpractice was based on the theory that the defendants failed to timely diagnose the decedent's condition although they had had several opportunities to do so...

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