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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 9 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Thurman v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc..

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1 Thurman v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc. Anchor
nyappdiv · 2007
green “could not have reasonably believed that he was receiving medical care from the hospital in general rather than from a particular physician” 3
2 Helper v. Chapin
nyappdiv · 2012
green “to establish, through competent expert medical opinion evidence, that there exists a triable issue of fact as to whether there was a deviation from the accepted standard of care and whether there exists a causal nexus between that deviation and decedent's injuries” 3
3 Citron v. Northern Dutchess Hospital
nyappdiv · 1993
green “a hospital may face vicarious liability for the acts of independent physicians if the patient enters the hospital through the emergency room and seeks treatment from the hospital, not from a particular physician” 3

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