District Court, S.D. New York November 14, 2002, 01-Civ. 1754(GWG) (Meyers v. Epstein)

OPINION AND ORDER'

GORENSTEIN, United States ■ Magistrate Judge.

This case arises out of brain surgery performed on Samara Meyers, who was eleven years old at the time. Plaintiffs, Samara and her parents, allege that a doctor who had no authority to operate on Samara performed her surgery — a situation that is colloquially described as “ghost surgery.