The trial dismissal of plaintiff's abandonment complaint against defendant Dr. Fradin was proper since plaintiff failed to prove that he had been Dr. Fradin's patient, and proof of a physician-patient relationship is essential to a prima facie case of abandonment (see, Dillon v Silver,
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