In re the Arbitration between Committee of the Interns & Residents & Dinkins

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

Peter Anyakora, a resident physician at Harlem Hospital, a public hospital in the City of New York, allegedly refused to admit, examine or treat a woman who was brought by ambulance to the hospital in active labor, despite a direct order to do so from the hospital administrator. The patient gave birth in a hospital admitting room attended only by EMS personnel. Anyakora was charged by the hospital with violating disciplinary rules and was criminally prosecuted for violation of Public Health Law § 2805-b (2) (b).1 In addition, the patient, Charlesetta Brown, sued…