Parsley v. Associates in Internal Medicine, P. C.

OPINION OF THE COURT

D. Bruce Crew, III, J.

This is a CPLR article 78 proceeding by which a physician, a former employee of respondent Associates in Internal Medicine, P. C. (hereafter AIM), seeks an order directing AIM to make available to petitioner, at cost, originals or copies of patient records for those patients for which the petitioner was the primary treating physician.

To be entitled to such an order petitioner must show that AIM has a duty plainly and specifically imposed by law to provide him with the original or copies of patient records (State Div. of Human Rights v New York State…