Hardt v. LaTrenta

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered November 13, 1997, which, in an action for medical malpractice, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

On this appeal, the issue has been limited to the viability of plaintiffs second cause of action based on lack of informed consent. The appeal insofar as addressed to the malpractice cause of action has been effectively withdrawn. Plaintiffs testimony that she had no understanding of what the proposed surgery was to entail, taken with that of her medical…