Colburn v. Blum

Judgment unanimously *889reversed on the law with costs and new trial granted. Memorandum: On July 5, 1990, plaintiff was injured in a boating accident and was taken to a hospital where defendant, the emergency room physician on call, treated her. Defendant irrigated a laceration and placed four stitches in the back of plaintiff’s knee. He also debrided fatally damaged tissue in the area of an abrasion, cleaned the area, administered an antibiotic cream, and bandaged plaintiff’s leg. Plaintiff returned to the emergency room on July 13 to have her stitches removed; her leg was severely swollen and…