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CONTINUOUS TREATMENT DOCTRINE NOT AFFECTED BY A YEAR AND THREE MONTH GAP IN TREATMENT, DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED IN THIS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACTION (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendants’ motion for summary judgment in this medical malpractice action should not have been granted. Although the alleged malpractice (the failure to follow up on a detection of a mass) occurred in 2006, the continuous treatment doctrine tolled the statute of limitations. A year and three month gap in treatment did not preclude application of the continuous treatment doctrine:

Plaintiff raised an issue of fact as to whether Dr. Woo continuously treated the decedent for conditions related to renal cell carcinoma. Plaintiff’s expert, Dr. Feit, opined that Dr. Woo treated the decedent for symptoms of back pain, hypertension, and insomnia, all of which were symptoms of and related to renal cell carcinoma, a diagnosis that should have been considered given the findings in the 2006 MRI of a renal mass.

Plaintiff sufficiently established that such treatment continued through the decedent’s hospitalization in July 2012. * * *

The one-year-and-three month gap between the April 2011 visit and the July 2012 note does not preclude application of the continuous treatment doctrine … . Dookhie v Woo, 2020 NY Slip Op 00975, First Dept 2-11-20

 

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