Opinion
May 4, 1987
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pizzuto, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, with costs, and that branch of the plaintiffs' motion which was for an order directing the appellant to deliver to the plaintiffs' counsel all of the original X rays of Josephine Paterna is denied.
The X rays are the property of the defendant the Long Island College Hospital. The plaintiffs have a right to reasonable access to the X rays but they do not have a right to an unsupervised inspection of the original X rays at their attorneys' office. Accordingly, they can either make copies of the X rays or examine the originals at the offices of the defendant hospital's attorneys (see, Public Health Law §§ 17, 18; Albany Med. Coll. v. McShane, 66 N.Y.2d 982, rearg denied 67 N.Y.2d 757; Cynthia B. v. New Rochelle Hosp. Med. Center, 60 N.Y.2d 452, 460, n 3; Matter of Ventura v. Long Is. Jewish Hillside Med. Center, 112 A.D.2d 437; Matter of Hernandez v. Lutheran Med. Center, 104 A.D.2d 368). Thompson, J.P., Lawrence, Rubin, Kunzeman and Sullivan, JJ., concur.