Legal Opinion
De Coste v. Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 9, 1989PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Yesawich, Jr., J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Viscardi, J.), entered April 7, 1988 in Clinton County, upon a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiff.
Plaintiffs decedent, Darwin A. De Coste, a 32-year-old custodial worker, was taken by ambulance to defendant Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Clinton County on January 8, 1984 at 1:14 a.m., complaining of intermittent chest pain and a headache. Decedent reported to the emergency room doctor, defendant William Amsterlaw, that he had a history of high blood pressure for which he was taking medication and that he had had a…
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