A Lackawanna County trial judge has ruled that a nurse must resume her deposition testimony in a nursing home death case despite the defense’s argument that her anxiety is too severe to allow her to continue.

Ezrin v. Hospice Preferred Choice is a wrongful death case alleging negligent and reckless nursing home and hospice care on the part of defendants Abington Manor and AseraCare that led to the death of Sidney Ezrin. According to the Oct. 3 memorandum and order by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Judge Terrence Nealon, the charge nurse on duty at Abington Manor during the period in which the alleged negligence and recklessness occurred, identified only as “C.N.,” cut her deposition testimony short and subsequently produced a report from her physician saying the completion of her deposition would need to be postponed until her anxiety was under control.