Zito v. Zabarsky
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Luciano, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for medical malpractice against her primary care physician, who treated her, inter alia, for a high cholesterol level. Initially, the defendant prescribed daily 20 milligram doses of the statin drug Pravachol and, thereafter, increased the dose to 40 milligrams. The defendant subsequently changed the plaintiff’s cholesterol-lowering medication to the statin drug Zocor, which he prescribed at the highest recommended daily dose, to wit: 80 milligrams.
Shortly after she began taking the 80 milligram dose of Zocor,…
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