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HAYNESWORTH v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH & HOSPS. CORP.

195 A.D.2d 424 (1993)

600 N.Y.S.2d 711

Alice L. Haynesworth, Appellant, v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

July 29, 1993

Defendant hospital's decision to release its psychiatric patient, who committed suicide the next day, was a considered medical judgment, the product of a careful examination for which it cannot be held liable (see, Bell v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 90 A.D.2d 270, 280). Unlike the situation in Cohen v State of New York (51 A.D.2d 494, affd 41 N...

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