Mehdi v. Board of Managers of Jones Memorial Hospital

Determination unanimously confirmed and petition dismissed, without costs. Memorandum: In a proceeding transferred to this court pursuant to CPLR 7804 (g), petitioner, who was employed by contract as chief anesthesiologist at Jones Memorial Hospital, was suspended from her position following a hearing upon charges (1) that she directed Caesarean section surgery to proceed upon a patient "without first establishing an airway” in the patient; and (2) that she failed "to respond to [the patient’s] persisting hypoxemia and to effectively reverse this condition”. Although the surgery resulted in…