Case Name: Mary D. Wisner, Respondent, v. Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1949-01-19
Citations: 274 A.D. 1087
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary D. Wisner, Respondent, v. Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 274
Pages: 1087–1088

Head Matter:
Mary D. Wisner, Respondent, v. Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Appellant.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed on the law, with costs, and complaint dismissed, with costs. Memorandum: The placing of the hot water bottles pursuant to the direction of the attending physician to apply external heat was a professional duty or service on the part of the nurse. The failure of the nurse to remove the bottles upon complaint of the patient constituted a medical failure for which the defendant hospital is not liable, rather than an administrative failure. (See Sutherland v. New York Polyclinic Med. School & Hosp., 273 App. Div. 29, affd. 298 N. Y. 682.) All concur. (The judgment is for plaintiff in a negligence action.) Present — Taylor, P. J., McCurn, Love, Vaughan and Piper, JJ.