Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the defendant North Shore University Hospital.
"It is well settled that actions should be resolved on their merits whenever possible, and that the drastic remedy of striking a pleading is inappropriate absent a clear showing that the failure to comply with discovery demands was willful and contumacious" (Jenkins v City of New York,
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