Legal Opinion
Meyers v. Epstein
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 14, 2002No. 01-Civ. 1754(GWG)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER'
GORENSTEIN, United States ■ Magistrate Judge.
This case arises out of brain surgery performed on Samara Meyers, who was eleven years old at the time. Plaintiffs, Samara and her parents, allege that a doctor who had no authority to operate on Samara performed her surgery — a situation that is colloquially described as “ghost surgery.” The defendants are the doctor who is alleged to have told the Meyers that he alone would be performing the surgery, Dr. Fred Epstein, and the doctor who in fact performed the surgery, Dr. Ira Richmond Abbott, III..The parties have consented to…
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