Roberts v. St. Francis Hospital

*273OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

Testimony at the trial of this medical malpractice action adduced the following facts. On January 18,1978, plaintiff Deborah Susan Roberts, then age 14, was brought to the emergency room of St. Francis Hospital in Port Jervis, New York, complaining of a high fever, vomiting and pain on the right side of her chest and back. An X ray indicated an infiltration in the middle lobe of her right lung. At the direction of Dr. Julia Keniston (defendant), plaintiff was admitted to the hospital. She was ultimately diagnosed as suffering from pneumonia. Defendant ordered…