The complaint, which alleges medical malpractice, was properly dismissed, upon the court's own initiative taken upon plaintiff's motion for an extension of time to file made in response to defendants' 90-day notice (see, CPLR 3216 [a]). The court's action was merited because of the failure to submit a physician's affidavit of merit (see, Mosberg v Elahi,
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