Legal Opinion
Bin Xin Tan v. St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 7, 2002PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J., and a jury), entered December 18, 2000, in favor of defendants, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
After an allegedly negligent misdiagnosis of cancer, the right lobe of the decedent’s liver was removed, resulting in complications that contributed to his death during subsequent transplant surgery. Plaintiff claims that defendant St. Vincent’s Hospital, by misinterpreting the “skinny” needle biopsy on which the diagnosis was based, and defendants Dr. Yee and Mt. Sinai Medical Center, by failing to confirm the diagnosis with a…
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