The Nation - News from Oct. 12, 1987
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The widow of a doctor who committed suicide while being treated for drug addiction at a rehabilitation center has been awarded $1.3 million in damages by a jury in Atlanta. The wrongful death action against Smyrna’s Ridgeview Institute was the first case to go to trial among four lawsuits involving the suicides of health-care professionals who were treated at Ridgeview. Dr. Walter Brandvain, 31, of New York, hanged himself Jan. 6, 1985, five days after he checked in for treatment.
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