Himber v. Pfizer Laboratories

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sutton, J.), entered November 5, 1980, denying defendant Haddad’s motion for sum*777mary judgment dismissing the sixth cause of action, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the motion granted. Defendant Haddad, an ophthalmologist, treated the decedent, who had been complaining of a “floater” in his eye, on only one occasion — August 21, 1975, and, after taking a history and making a diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, prescribed that the decedent take eight Bufferin tablets a day. The decedent had been a diabetic since 1952…