Buchheim v. Sanghavi

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stanley Sklar, J.), entered July 10, 2001, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff claims that she suffers from a “mid-sigmoid stricture” caused by an injury to the wall of her colon, either a laceration or a sealed perforation, sustained during a colonoscopy performed without preparation by defendant physician at defendant hospital with the assistance of defendant resident. According to plaintiff’s expert, unless a patient is in a “life-threatening emergency,” and…