Ermutlu v. McCorkle

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• finding that psychiatrist did not exercise sufficient control over voluntary outpatient and therefore no special relationship arose; distinguishing Bradley Center, which involved a voluntary outpatient
• no duty to third parties on treating psychiatrist of manic depressive outpatient who did not qualify for involuntary commitment pursuant to OCGA § 37-3-163
• psychiatrist for mentally ill outpatient who killed a third person in a wreck could not legally confine or restrain the patient against her will
• plaintiffs’ expert “could not state with any degree of medical certainty that [patient’s] mental disorder [for which she allegedly had received improper care] caused the accident [that killed plaintiffs’ daughter]”
• plaintiffs’ expert “could not state with any degree of medical certainty that [patient’s] mental disorder [for which she allegedly had received improper care] caused the accident [that killed plaintiffs’ daughter]”

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