Ogden v. Bhatti

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of defendant Bhatti, entered October 15, 1981 in Rensselaer County, upon a verdict rendered at Trial Term (Kahn, J.). The underlying action is one for medical malpractice against the defendant doctor for treatment rendered plaintiff Alice T. Ogden. The other plaintiff is her husband who has brought a derivative action. The record reveals that defendant examined plaintiff Alice T. Ogden at his office and concluded she had a polyp in the sigmoid colon which had to be removed; that the best available procedure for its removal was by a…