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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hixon finds the trial court properly granted summary judgment to the mental health facility who refused admittance to the potential psychiatric patient. The potential patient, a truck driver, was having a PTSD episode at a truck stop. Medical examination found meth in his system and the mental health facility refused him admittance based on the lack of clarity as to whether or not the episode was precipitated by a reaction to drugs or was a genuine schizophrenic episode. The driver was released from care and returned to the truck stop where he hassled another driver, stole a truck and was shot dead when he attempted to stab the other driver’s wife. No patient-physician relationship existed between the driver and the mental health facility based upon a “four minute” phone conversation between the original examiner and the psychiatrist. Affirmed.