ARMSTRONG, J.
The plaintiff sued Cape Cod Hospital and its emergency room physician for their role in causing her involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility. Her complaint is that the physician failed to examine her, as G.L.c. 123, § 12(a), requires, before he authorized her restraint and applied for her temporary hospitalization at the facility. Compare Leininger v. Franklin Med. Center,
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