Dunkley v. Shoemate

LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal is from a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of plaintiff’s claim. N.C.R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). For Rule 12(b)(6) purposes, plaintiffs allegations are taken as true. Smith v. Ford Motor Co., 289 N.C. 71, 83, 221 S.E.2d 282, 290 (1976).

Plaintiff alleges the following: She was hospitalized at University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill (UNC Hospital) on 25 September 1989 “for care and treatment of depression and debilitating psychological illness.” After her discharge on 10 October 1989, defendant Lee H. Shoemate was assigned to provide her with psychiatric outpatient…