Garcia v. Lifemark Hospitals of Florida

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• holding emergency room personnel under no obligation to detain victim of apparent accident who chooses to leave against medical advice and later kills himself
• finding that a duty of care may exist “where a patient has surrendered himself to the custody, care and treatment of a psychiatric hospital and its staff” and the hospital has failed “to take protective measures to prevent the patient from injuring himself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).