Fhima v. Maimonides Medical Center

—In an action to recover damages for, inter alia, medical malpractice, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Friedman, J.), dated February 16, 1999, which granted the defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 3212 for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff Jaky Fhima was admitted to the defendant medical center after a portion of one of his right fingers had been severed in a knife attack. The gravamen of the plaintiffs’ first cause of action is that the defendants’ failure to arrange *560for the…