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SHAFRAN v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER

264 A.D.2d 553 (1999)

694 N.Y.S.2d 642

JACK SHAFRAN et al., Appellants, v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER et al., Respondents.

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

Decided September 2, 1999.

In this medical malpractice action, the following facts were established at trial. Plaintiff's decedent, Betty Shafran, sustained serious injuries and eventually died after receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while in defendants' care. The ECT was prescribed as treatment for Shafran's chronic depression. In July 1990, Shafran was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital by her internist, defendant Margaret Burns, M.D., after Shafran...

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