Kinch v. Adams

On October 19, 1970, Sandra Kinch, the plaintiff’s now deceased wife, suffered a cardiac arfest at Child’s Hospital after undergoing a barium enema at the direction of defendants Doctors Adams and Attarian. The stricken Mrs. Kinch was discovered by a hospital technician in an outpatient bathroom where, a few moments before, she had been taken to evacuate following the diagnostic procedure. She was immediately revived and rushed to Albany Medical Center where she died five days later. Subsequently, her husband instituted the present action, seeking damages for her death which he alleged was…