Legal Opinion
Patten v. Hamburg OB/GYN Group, P.C.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 25, 2008PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Donna M. Siwek, J.), entered January 25, 2007 in a medical malpractice action. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted in part defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Plaintiff and his wife (decedent) initially commenced this medical malpractice action alleging that defendants were negligent in prescribing estrogen cream to decedent for symptoms of menopause, “although they were aware and should have known” that she…
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