After an allegedly negligent misdiagnosis of cancer, the right lobe of the decedent's liver was removed, resulting in complications that contributed to his death during subsequent transplant surgery. Plaintiff claims that defendant St. Vincent's Hospital, by misinterpreting the "skinny" needle biopsy on which the diagnosis was based, and defendants Dr. Yee and Mt. Sinai Medical Center, by failing to confirm the diagnosis with a tissue biopsy, committed malpractice.
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