A judge has removed New York-Presbyterian Hospital as defendant in a lawsuit filed by the estate of a resident physician who died from an overdose of a drug she apparently became addicted to while in the hospital’s anesthesiology training program.

“Terrible circumstances” surrounded the May 2011 death of Dr. Janet Christophel, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger (See Profile) found.

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