WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION

2519, 14520/01.

79 A.D.3d 440 (2010)

911 N.Y.S.2d 612

LYDIA WILLIAMS, Appellant-Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION et al., Respondents-Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided December 7, 2010.


Viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, the prevailing party, the evidence sufficiently supports the jury's findings that defendant physician deviated from good and acceptable medical standards by performing an unnecessary modified radical mastectomy on plaintiff and by failing to inform her that a lumpectomy was a viable alternative treatment, and that a reasonably prudent person in plaintiff's position would not have undergone a mastectomy had she been informed...

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