Ooft v. City of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

Arthur S. Hirsch, J.

The allegations forming a basis of this malpractice action are as follows:

A Saf-T-Coil intrauterine device was inserted in plaintiff by defendants at one of the city’s health centers. Some years later, between 1973 and 1975, another intrauterine device was inserted in plaintiff’s womb by defendants at the same health clinic, but the original Saf-T-Coil was not removed. In 1977, defendants’ employees at the clinic removed the second device from plaintiff. Thereafter, plaintiff experienced pain and bleeding from her cervix, was admitted to a hospital on…