Buckner v. St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered July 6, 2012, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, deemed an appeal from judgment, same court and Justice, entered August 14, 2012, dismissing the complaint, and, so considered, said judgment unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant made a prima facie showing of entitlement to summary judgment dismissing the complaint by submitting the affidavit of a medical expert opining, with a reasoned and fact-based explanation, that the treatment defendant’s physician provided…