Ex Parte AMI West Alabama General Hosp.

Michael Goodson was admitted to the psychiatric unit of AMI West Alabama General Hospital on February 21, 1989, allegedly under the primary care of Allie C. Boyd, M.D., a psychiatrist. Goodson committed suicide four days later, on February 25, 1989. Goodson was admitted suffering from painful and acute paranoid disturbances related primarily to his admittedly homosexual lifestyle, his fear and paranoia that he was infected with the AIDS virus, and an intense feeling of guilt resulting from a fear that he had perhaps passed on the virus to one or more of his married homosexual partners, and,…