Miranda v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority

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• holding, in a medical-malpractice case, that defendant hospital and physicians’ failure to sufficiently monitor a suicidal patient who slipped out of restraints, left the hospital, and committed suicide the next day was not the proximate cause of the patient’s death as a matter of law
• holding, in a medical-malpractice case, that defendant hospital and physicians’ failure to sufficiently monitor a suicidal patient who slipped out of restraints, left the hospital, and committed suicide the next day was not the proximate cause of the patient’s death as a matter of law
• no causal connection between escape from restraints at Grady and death from leaping in front of moving vehicle on highway the following day
• no causal connection between escape from restraints at Grady and death from leaping in front of moving vehicle on highway the following day
• plaintiff’s expert testified that, even if defendant hospital’s employees had met standard of care, patient’s suicide “could have been unpreventable”
• plaintiff’s expert testified that, even if defendant hospital’s employees had met standard of care, patient’s suicide “could have been unpreventable”

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