Rodriguez v. Lenox Hill Hospital

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Louis C. Benza, J.), entered June 14, 2001, which, in an action for medical malpractice, granted defendant-respondent psychiatrist’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims as against him, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff claims that respondent committed malpractice in failing to determine the cause of plaintiffs decedent’s agitation and pain before prescribing psychotropic medications that may have masked her pain and contributed to untimely diagnosis and treatment of her true medical condition. However,…