HARDBERGER, Chief Justice.
This interesting summary judgment case explores a health care provider's duty to warn a possible victim of a mentally ill patient. These cases, of which there were four in Texas before the present case, all explore the Tarasoff/Thompson doctrine, which originated in California. This doctrine stands for the proposition that a health care provider may have a duty not only to his ill patient, but to the patient's intended victim if it...
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