WHITE v. SOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL


281 A.D.2d 474 (2001)

721 N.Y.S.2d 678

SONYA Y. WHITE et al., Appellants, v. SOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL et al., Defendants, and WILLIAM M. FUCHS, Respondent.

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

Decided March 12, 2001.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The respondent, Dr. William M. Fuchs, established a prima facie case of his entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. He presented uncontradicted evidence that he examined the decedent, Ophelia White, only once, solely for the purpose of a pre-employment physical and that he did not thereafter provide any treatment to her. Accordingly, no physician-patient relationship was created unless Dr...

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