Romanos v. Caldwell

Petitioner, defendant in a medical malpractice action below, seeks a writ of cer-tiorari to quash a trial court order that prevented petitioner from deposing opposing counsel, Christian Searcy. In the ac*1092tion below, a patient’s widow is suing the petitioner, a psychiatrist, for alleged negligence in his treatment of her husband who committed suicide some time after the psychiatrist had prescribed the decedent antidepressant medication.

Searcy had known the decedent for a number of years and had played golf with the decedent three days before he took his own life. The wife, who is suing in her…