Cintron v. Montefiore Medical Center

Defendant established its entitlement to summary judgment by showing that the treatment provided to plaintiff comported with good and accepted medical practice (see e.g. Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320 [1986]). Defendant submitted the affirmations of experts who concluded, based on the medical records and the deposition testimony of plaintiff and her treating doctors, that plaintiffs kidney disease was not caused by defendant’s failure to discontinue certain medications prescribed to her to treat her rheumatoid arthritis. The experts opined that the low doses of medications did not…