Covert v. Walker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*826The defendant radiologist Elizabeth Ramirez interpreted a CT scan of the thorax of the plaintiffs’ decedent on April 26, 2005, and noted, inter alia, the existence of adenopathy (enlarged lymph nodes), which was of uncertain etiology, and recommended correlation with the decedent’s clinical history. A biopsy of the decedent’s lung tissue was not taken until December 27, 2005, after the decedent presented to her pulmonologist with a paralyzed vocal cord. The biopsy led to a diagnosis of non-small-cell carcinoma of the lung, and the decedent died from that condition on April 5, 2006. The…
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