Following the shooting after midnight Saturday, Burress checked into the hospital under the name Harris Smith. He told officials there he had been shot at an Applebee's restaurant.

But investigators say that the hospital -- and, more importantly, Abisaab -- knew exactly who he was.

After treating him, Abisaab -- an emergency internist who graduated from the University of Rochester -- allegedly failed to notify police of a gunshot victim, as required by law.

She did not respond to calls yesterday, and the doorman at her Upper East Side building said she had gone away on vacation.

The hospital said it is investigating and could bring disciplinary measures against others.

"If others are found to have failed to act on a timely basis, there may be further disciplinary action," hospital spokeswoman Myrna Manners said. "Not reporting a gunshot wound is a clear violation of our policies and procedures."

Abisaab's connection to the team is unclear, but the Giants do have a long-standing relationship with New York-Cornell and Burress would likely have felt right at home there.

The hospital adjoins -- and is affiliated with -- the Hospital for Special Surgery, where Giants players routinely are treated for injuries. In late October, Burress went to that hospital for tests on his injured shoulder and neck.

Giants team physician Dr. Russell Warren is the surgeon-in-chief emeritus of Special Surgery, as well as a professor of orthopedics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The college is also at the New York-Cornell complex.

Warren did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Law-enforcement sources yesterday said that police investigating the Burress shooting have not spoken to Warren and have no plans to do so.

Assistant team physicians Bryan Kelly and Scott Rodeo, assistant trainer Leigh Weiss and team nutritionist Heidi Skolnik all have ties to the hospital as well.

Mayor Bloomberg -- who is infuriated by the alleged cover-up at New York-Cornell -- said he had spoken with the hospital's CEO, Herbert Pardes, as well as with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Giants' owners, John Mara and the Tisch family.

"What I said to both the Maras, to Roger Goodell and to Herb Pardes at the hospital -- the law says if you see something, you've got to call the cops," he said. "In the case of the hospital, they have a legal requirement. As soon as somebody comes in with a gunshot wound, you call the police. Somehow or other, their system broke down."

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league is committed to fully "cooperating with the NYPD."

Additional reporting by Dan Mangan, Jeane Macintosh, Paul Schwartz and Erik Shilling.

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Hospital doctor in Burress incident suspended
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