The line between state and private action is at issue in the forced commitment of a Suffolk County man who is suing after being confined at a private hospital for 10 days by two private doctors who allegedly took the word of a state doctor and did not examine him themselves.
March 27, 2015 at 09:00 AM
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The line between state and private action is at issue in the involuntary mental health commitment of a Suffolk County man who is suing after being confined at a private hospital for 10 days.
Eastern District Judge Arthur Spatt denied the motion to dismiss made by two doctors at Brunswick Hospital Center in Amityville in the case of Patrick Bryant, who claimed the private doctors took the word of a state doctor who worked at the former New York state-operated Stony Brook Medical Center.
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