Dill v. Scuka

EGAN, District Judge.

Essentially this is an attempt to fasten vicarious liability on a treating doctor who called in a specialist, with the patient’s consent, to perform an aortogram, in which effort the expert was unsuccessful, the attempted aortogram having been performed by the expert in the absence of the treating doctor who did not assist in any way at the time.

Secondarily, plaintiff seeks to impose liability on the treating doctor on the ground that he abandoned the plaintiff after the unsuccessful attempts to perform the aortogram and failed to prescribe other forms of therapy which…