Vera v. Beth Israel Medical Hospital

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered June 30, 1994, in favor of the plaintiffs on their causes of action alleging psychiatric malpractice, reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and the complaint dismissed.

Plaintiff Josephine Vera, a chronic schizophrenic was admitted to the Beth Israel Medical Hospital (Beth Israel) on June 27, 1984 suffering from an acute exacerbation of her schizophrenia, which included command auditory hallucinations telling her to jump out of a window. The uncontradicted determination by the defendant doctor was that the…