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SWEET v. SHEEHAN

No. 2D04-2744.

932 So.2d 365 (2006)

Scott SWEET, Appellant, v. Michael F. SHEEHAN, M.D., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Burlington, P.A., West Palm Beach, and David G. Eaton of Eaton & Powell, Tampa, for Appellant.

Bradley S. Bell, Richard B. Mangan, Jr., and R. Clifton Acord, II, of Rissman, Weisberg, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue & McLain, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.

KELLY, Judge.

Scott Sweet sued his psychiatrist, Dr. Michael F. Sheehan, for medical malpractice after he sustained severe neurological damage as a result of a failed suicide attempt. The facts underlying Sweet's lawsuit are largely undisputed. Sweet began seeing Dr. Sheehan for depression and obsessive compulsive disorder in December 1993. In January 1997, Sweet told Dr. Sheehan that he felt hopeless and depressed and that he was considering suicide. Because he feared...

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