Legal Opinion
Gilmore v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 6, 1993PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Helen E. Freedman, J.
Tragically, Nicole Gilmore, an 11-year-old girl suffering from osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) was infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV or AIDS virus) from one *955or more of the 22 units of blood she received between March 6 and October 17, 1983 during surgical and chemotherapy treatment at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases sued herein as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Hospital). In 1990, having been informed of her infection, plaintiff Gilmore sued Memorial Hospital, her orthopedist, Dr. Joseph M. Lane, and her…
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