Litigation Challenges in Cases Involving Patient Suicide

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

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Angeline Pham¹  Charles Dike¹ 

[1] Law and Psychiatry Division,Department of Psychiatry,Yale University School of Medicine

关键词: negligence;    malpractice;    suicide;    proximatecause;    causation;   

DOI  :  10.29158/JAAPL.230005-23

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In Pediatrics Cool Care v. Thompson, 649 S.W.3d152 (Tex. 2022), the Supreme Court of Texas examined the causation standards in a case involvingnegligence and patient suicide. The parents of 14-year-old patient A.W. sued providers at the PediatricsCool Care practice for negligence following her suicide. Although a jury found the practice’s supervisingphysician and physician assistant (PA) proximatelycaused A.W.’s death, which was affirmed by the courtof appeals, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed thejudgment in favor of the practice providers, statingthe appellate court had erred in omitting an important causation standard in its analysis.

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