Tabor v. Doctors Memorial Hospital

WATKINS, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice action brought by the surviving parents of a young man who died in 1981 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound approximately one day after he was released from the emergency room of the defendant hospital, Doctors Memorial Hospital. The plaintiffs, James F. and Mary F. Tabor, also sued Dr. John Dunn, the doctor on duty at the time their son was taken to the hospital.

*850This is the second time the case reaches us on appeal. Previously, we reversed a directed verdict in favor of both defendants and remanded the case for a new trial against both defendants.…