Since the surgeon was retained by plaintiff and is not the hospital's employee, his alleged malpractice in performing surgery on plaintiff's left eye instead of right cannot be imputed to the hospital, unless the surgery was so contraindicated by normal practice that ordinary prudence required inquiry into its correctness (see Walter v Betancourt,
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