Opinion
December 21, 2000.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered April 21, 2000, which, in a medical malpractice action, denied defendants doctor's and hospital's respective motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Nathan L. Dembin, for plaintiff-respondent.
Lawrence W. Burnett, Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy, for defendants-appellants.
Before: Sullivan, P.J., Wallach, Lerner, Andrias, Buckley, JJ.
Issues of fact exist as to, inter alia, how and when the infectious agent was introduced; whether defendant doctor committed malpractice in administering a lumbar epidural steroid injection by taking 17 minutes to perform the procedure and using the same needle in more than one location; and whether defendant hospital, through its nurse, committed malpractice by failing to prepare proper records, obtain a full history, properly examine plaintiff and properly evaluate the injection site.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.