Legal Opinion
Simmons v. TEXOMA MEDICAL CENTER
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided November 30, 2010No. 08-09-00031-CVPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GUADALUPE RIVERA, Justice.
Karen Scruggs Simmons, individually and as representative of the Estate of Brandon Scruggs, appeals the trial court’s order dismissing her suit, with prejudice, against Texoma Medical Center (“TMC”). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The following facts are taken from Simmons’ original and amended petitions. Having overdosed on the antipsychotic drug, Loxapine, Simmons’ son, Brandon Scruggs, was admitted to TMC’s emergen cy room and sent to an exam room. There, Scruggs, who weighed 380 pounds and suffered from schizophrenia, was agitated, “yell[ed] out” at various…
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