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EX PARTE AMI WEST ALABAMA GENERAL HOSP.

1900600, 1900499.

582 So.2d 484 (1991)

Ex parte AMI WEST ALABAMA GENERAL HOSPITAL. (Re Willita ZOELLNER, as administratrix of the Estate of Michael Goodson, deceased v. AMI WEST ALABAMA GENERAL HOSPITAL). Ex parte Allie C. BOYD. (Re Willita ZOELLNER, as administratrix of the Estate of Michael Goodson, deceased v. AMI WEST ALABAMA GENERAL HOSPITAL).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 24, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyman H. Harris and Linda E. Winkler of Harris, Evans, Berg & Morris, Birmingham, for petitioner AMI West Alabama General Hosp.

Andrew P. Campbell and Shawn Hill Crook of Leitman, Siegal, Payne & Campbell, Birmingham, for petitioner Dr. Allie C. Boyd.

Ralph I. Knowles, Jr. of Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

SHORES, Justice.

Michael Goodson was admitted to the psychiatric unit of AMI West Alabama General Hospital on February 21, 1989, allegedly under the primary care of Allie C. Boyd, M.D., a psychiatrist. Goodson committed suicide four days later, on February 25, 1989. Goodson was admitted suffering from painful and acute paranoid disturbances related primarily to his admittedly homosexual lifestyle, his fear and paranoia that he was infected with the AIDS virus, and...

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