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State: North Shore Hospital blundered on brain surgery

Dr. Thomas Milhorat, North Shore-LIJ's former chief of

Photo credit: File / North Shore-LIJ | Dr. Thomas Milhorat, North Shore-LIJ's former chief of neurosurgery. (July 21, 2003)

The state health department has cited North Shore University Hospital for 14 violations after two neurosurgeons failed to operate on a sedated patient lying on an operating table.

"When a hospital schedules a patient for surgery, the patient has the right to expect that the surgeon is there and patient will get the appropriate care," said Health Department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton.

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