 As shown above, however, here the occurrence of the intervening act is the precise hazard to which defendants' conduct is alleged to have negligently exposed plaintiff, and the injuries pleaded are those which a reasonably prudent physician would have foreseen as likely to ensue from that negligence.In these circumstances "The allegations of the complaint are sufficient to present the issue" of proximate cause.Pursuant to our duty to liberally construe pleadings with a view to achieving substantial justice  we therefore treat the second and third "causes of action" as alternative counts setting forth plaintiff's theory of statutory liability.