Garcia v. Bronx Lebanon Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Friedman, J.), entered on or about July 19, 2000, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiffs complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, defendants’ motion denied and the complaint reinstated.
Plaintiff, who admitted he had been drinking, went to defendant hospital because he was experiencing chest pain. At his *382deposition, he stated that he remembers sitting in the emergency waiting room, going to the bathroom, then returning to sit down. His next recollection is waking up the following day,…
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