H. Brown, J. Our threshold issue requires us to determine under what circumstances a psychiatrist can be held liable for the violent acts of a *92 voluntarily hospitalized patient following the patient’s release from the hospital. To maintain a wrongful death action on a theory of negligence, a plaintiff must show (1) the existence of a duty owing to plai…
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