Cidilko v. Palestine

William R. Brennan, Jr., J.

This is an application prior to the commencement of an action to examine the hospital at which the female plaintiff was confined for a hip injury. She states that some two weeks following an operation to reduce the hip fracture a nurse or nurse’s aide insisted upon her walking to the lavatory instead of giving her beside attention; and that as a result of her effort to walk she stumbled, undoing the pin which had been inserted in her hip, and shattering the hip. It is sought to examine the hospital in order to ascertain the name of the nurse or aide, whether there…