Turack v. State

On the 10th day of January, 1935, claimant, then about fifty-nine years of age and employed as a carpenter by the State of New York at the Creedmore State Hospital, applied to the hospital for treatment to his right foot which was causing him pain. Dr. Tagliavia, a physician attached to the Creedmore Hospital, examined the claimant and sent him to the physiotherapy department for treatment, where he was treated by a Mr. O’Shaughnessy, an attendant of the hospital. O’Shaughnessy was not the technician in charge nor was he a duly licensed physician. In administering the diathermy treatment to…