The record establishes that three days after plaintiff's admission to defendant hospital via the emergency room, she was referred to defendant Dr. Piccorelli, an attending vascular surgeon, who treated her and performed an unsuccessful saphenous vein bypass in her left leg, which later had to be amputated above the knee. The hospital is not liable for the acts of the private attending physician. Nor may liability be assigned to defendant doctor Abdallah, a resident at the...
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