{"id":2604,"date":"2019-12-23T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:37:59","slug":"summary-judgment-granted-to-new-york-hospital-despite-patients-allegation-of-delay-in-treating-gunshot-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/summary-judgment-granted-to-new-york-hospital-despite-patients-allegation-of-delay-in-treating-gunshot-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary Judgment Granted to New York Hospital Despite Patient&#8217;s Allegation of Delay in Treating Gunshot Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and hospitals make mistakes, just like other individuals and institutions. Sometimes an act of negligence involves the timing of treatment more than the actual procedure or diagnosis. The hospital or physician may have, eventually, done the right thing, but the delay may have caused a patient to suffer unnecessarily or it may have made his or her condition worse than it would have other been. When this happens, the injured patient has a right to seek monetary compensation with the assistance of a Syracuse medical malpractice lawyer to help offset the additional medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering caused by the act of malpractice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-first-department\/2019\/10629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> considered on appeal by the New York Appellate Division, First Department,\u00a0 the plaintiff was an infant who, through his mother and natural guardian, brought suit against the defendant hospital in the Supreme Court of Bronx County, seeking monetary compensation for personal injuries he allegedly sustained due to the defendant&#8217;s delay in surgically intervening to treat a medical condition that allegedly developed after the infant suffered a gunshot in his right leg. According to the plaintiff&#8217;s view of the case, the defendant should have acted quicker in treating the infant&#8217;s compartment syndrome (the building of excessive pressure inside an enclosed muscular space, usually caused from bleeding or swelling brought on by an acute injury).<\/p>\n<p>The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that it was entitled to judgment as a matter of law because the plaintiff had failed to present a triable issue of fact. The trial court ruled in the defendant&#8217;s favor on the motion, and the plaintiff appealed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/summary-judgment-granted-to-new-york-hospital-despite-patients-allegation-of-delay-in-treating-gunshot-wound\/#more-2604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and hospitals make mistakes, just like other individuals and institutions. Sometimes an act of negligence involves the timing of treatment more than the actual procedure or diagnosis. The hospital or physician may have, eventually, done the right thing, but the delay may have caused a patient to suffer unnecessarily or it may have made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Summary Judgment Granted to New York Hospital Despite Patient&#039;s Allegation of Delay in Treating Gunshot Wound &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 23, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doctors and hospitals make mistakes, just like other individuals and institutions. 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