Forensic Psychiatry & Medicine Psychiatric Malpractice

"Medical Center Not Immune from Suit for Involuntarily Committed Patient's Suicide "


Interwood Publications, 1999

"The Mississippi supreme court held that a medical center was not immune from a wrongful death suit under state law for an involuntarily committed patient's suicide, because the law provides immunity for neglect acts only in terms of the actual commitment decision."

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