Garrett v. Brooklyn Hospital

In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Cooperman, J.), dated October 8, 1982, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint as time barred. Order affirmed, with costs. In October, 1964, just prior to her seventh birthday, plaintiff, who had fallen and lacerated her hand on some glass, underwent “[a] wide excision of the area, at the base of the right thumb * * * to remove a fibrotic V2 cm. dense area” at defendant hospital. The pathology report with respect to the removed tissue characterized it…