Miller v. Wells

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered September 27, 1976 in Schenectady County, which denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint on the ground that the Statute of Limitations had expired prior to institution of suit. This is an action for medical malpractice. The gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint is that the defendant negligently prescribed the drug methatrexate for treatment of her psoriasis condition, which caused a rupturing of her intestines, gangrene, deterioration of the gallbladder and diverticulitis of the colon, requiring her to undergo…