Plaintiff's action against Dupret, the attending obstetrician and gynecologist who performed the allegedly negligent abdominal hysterectomy, should have been dismissed as time-barred. The amended complaint naming her as an additional defendant was not commenced within the 2½-year statute of limitations (see CPLR 214-a), and plaintiff failed to meet her burden of demonstrating the applicability of the relation-back doctrine (see Bulow v Women In Need, Inc.,...
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