Legal Opinion
Sutherland v. New York Polyclinic Medical School & Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 22, 1947PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, P. J.
Plaintiff, while a patient in defendant hospital, a charitable organization, suffered serious burns to her feet from the application of hot water bottles. She had just returned to her room after an operation under spinal anesthesia, and was being given an intravenous injection, when she complained to the attending doctor of feeling cold. At the doctor’s direction a hospital nurse procured hot water bottles, and the doctor and nurse placed the bottles in plaintiff’s bed adjacent to her feet. According to plaintiff’s testimony, she complained to the nurse within five minutes of warmth and…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Schloendorff v. Society of the New York HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
- Sheehan v. North Country Community HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
- Necolayff v. Genesee HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1947
- Necolayff v. Genesee HospitalAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1946
- Lee v. Glens Falls HospitalAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1943
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- Berg v. New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & CrippledAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1955
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