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4885 A mental health professional treating a patient with Asberger's Syndrome, who exhibited violent rages toward his parents and made threats of violence against them, but never toward or against plaintiff, does not owe plaintiff a duty of reasonable care to protect against violence by the patient; an allegation that the professional caused the patient's attack on plaintiff by prescribing certain drugs to the patient relates to causation and is irrelevant to the existence of a duty.CitationGREENBERG v SUPERIOR COURT (Killer Patient) 172 CA4 1339 [See: CivC 43.92; Tarasoff v Regents 17 C3 425; Calderon v Glick 131 CA4 224, T/AT 8/05]
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